Changes the Civil War brought to American civilian societies

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The American Civil War (1861-1865) significantly impacted civilian society in both the North and the South. For instance, the civilian population in the South faced economic changes. The banning of slavery in the South meant that the economy was forced to shift from a slave-based economy to a wage labor economy. Consequently, sharecropping became the common method of hiring newly black freed slaves (and whites!) to ...