For American History people...

[SnoopCat]

can you help me out on this question


Explain three ways how the changing face of American cities became evident after the Civil war.


i dont really understand the question, esp. the "changing face" part. If you know what the question is asking, please restate it in simpler terms. thanks

 

[kamiam]

look up industrial states vs plantations and then look up "carpetbaggers"

 

[erub]

changing face to me means become more industrialm more factories, more immigrants, etc. duh, the Gilded Age, man 🙂 - see also, corruption, Populists (hey, its a gilded age question, throw them in, maybe!)

carpetbaggers were northerners who went to the south and took over during Reconstruction...dont think they have anything to do with the question.

 

[kamiam]

<< carpetbaggers were northerners who went to the south and took over during Reconstruction...dont think they have anything to do with the question. >>

don't you think that by &quot;helping with the reconstruction&quot; they didn't &quot;change the face&quot; of the south ,or have some kind of &quot;impact&quot; there???

 

[Anfield]

I would say that the proportion of African-Americans in Northern (vis. the Mason-Dixon line)cities probably rose.

 

[erub]

yeah but were talking about cities here - cities were few and far between in the south during the guilded age, very different from the north where they only began to truly boom after the civil war.

 

[erub]

Anfield: actually, suprisingly enough there wasn't a large black flight from the South after the CW. Most blacks were too poor to move North, or lacked the desire to leave where they had grown up

 

[Anfield]

Erub: you sound better informed on this than me, so more than likely you are right. I was speculating to be honest. I can't remember far enough back (in my mis-education) to be an actual source of facts on U.S. history. IOW - listen to E-rub. 😀😱