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=﻿War Impact on South=

The war impacted the South in so many ways. The South had no factories to produce guns or ammo, the railroads were small and not interconnected, which meant that it was hard to move food, weapons, and men quickly to long distances. The farmers started to focus more on cash crops like cotton, tobacco, etc. and did not produce enough food for the South's population.

With the loss of cotton exports, the South lost its banking system that was located in New York. Without gold or banks, the South started to print paper money, this was not popular with the people. Printing money meant that they had to tax the citizens. The South couldn't manage to feed their military and citizens, so parts of the South died from starvation. Weapons and ammo were also short in the south. Men had to bring their own guns, or seach on the battlefield and take one of the Union's weapons. Men fighting in the war was missing one important supply, shoes.