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Explanation:
The civil war weakened the southern economy because heavy taxes were placed on states as those states were utterly destroyed at the last battles of the war. In the course of rebuilding their ruins, heavy taxes were brought up, this affected the growth of sharecroppers in the economy leading to general weakness.
After the abolishment of slave trade the southerners no longer have access to free labor provided by slaves, so they started to pay wages to their workers.
Personal properties became devalued and both government and personal debt increased
