Question

Which of the following is an economic reason that the South needed a Reconstruction plan?

A. Former plantation owners took back their land.

B. The Civil War caused most people to move north.

C. Plantations, factories, and other businesses were destroyed during the war.

D. Southern states threatened again to secede.

Answer 1

Answer:

C.

Explanation:

Much of the Southern United States was destroyed during the Civil war. Farms and plantations were burned down and their crops destroyed.  Farms and plantations were the economic backbone of the Southern United States. Therefore without the farms and plantations the south needed a desperate reconstruction plan.

Sources: Ducksters- Kids History: Civil War Reconstruction.

Answer 2

Answer:

c. Plantations, factories, and other businesses were destroyed during the war.  

Explanation:

It needed to be rebuilt to help put the south back as part of the Union.  

To Attain this restrictions were made such as promises to be loyal to the United States.