Which of the following was NOT a change that occurred in the economy of Texas after the Civil War?
a.
Texans stopped planting cotton and began to plant wheat instead.
b.
Freed African Americans began to rent land from white land owners.
c.
Plantation owners established labor contracts for African American workers.
d.
Texans opened new factories and began in-state manufacturing.

a.

Texans stopped planting cotton and began to plant wheat instead.

Explanation:

After the Civil War,cotton plantation system continued in Texas. Tenant farmers which comprised of black and whites with the blacks forming a majority of this group.

Cattle and cotton production were the main aspects of farming operations during this period. However wheat, rice, sorghum, hay and dairy production also became important too.

workers of lowell mills were greatly benefited for the waltham type of work which was more a paternalist kind, trying to protect the integrity of this little girls coming from small farmers and providing an adequate place of work, this in an effort to avoid the issues of bad place conditions and immorality that the people in bigger industrialized cities of great britain were experimenting.