Following the civil war, the south rebuilt its economy

The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War. ... During Reconstruction, many small white farmers, thrown into poverty by the war, entered into cotton production, a major change from prewar days when they concentrated on growing food for their own families.

Explanation:

it was on the rise and doing very well and would continue to do well until the great depression from 1929-1939