Please help the words are just not coming to me How did the southern economy expand after Reconstruction?

Their economy lagged behind after the war. They had to rebuild economy, shift away from cash crops, there was no more slavery, small farms replaced large plantations. ... Investments in steel coal and iron created urban centers in the south, farming also became more diversified, small farms became large plantations.

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