Which of the following was not one of the results of the civil war? a. the slaves were emancipated. b. the union was saved. c. women began demanding a greater political voice. d. plantations began running more smoothly.

Plantations did not begin to run more smoothly (D) following the end of the Civil War because following the Civil War the South's economy had been destroyed and the South's system of slavery had been altered forever which changed the labor system and impacted the plantation system greatly.