What were the short- and long-term results of the ""Jim Crow"" system in the South? Why was the sharecropping system so hard to overcome? Were blacks worse off or better off after the Civil War?

the completion of the erie canal spurred the first great westward movement of american settlers, gave access to the rich land and resources west of the appalachians and made new york the preeminent commercial city in the united states.

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not all were fit for battle and were weak.