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The Long Aftermath of the Civil War During Reconstruction , Georgia at first refused to ratify the
Fourteenth Amendment and was consequently placed under military rule. During the period of military rule Rufus B. Bullock, a radical Republican, was elected governor. Corruption
prevailed during Bullock's administration (1868-71), but after the legislature
approved the Fifteenth Amendment (the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
having been ratified earlier), Georgia was readmitted (1870) to the Union, and Bullock resigned. Georgia's Democratic party has dominated the state's politics since the end of Reconstruction.
The textile industry recovered from the effects of the war and was expanding by the 1880s. Atlanta, which had succeeded
Milledgeville as the capital in 1868, grew into a thriving industrial city, largely due to its importance as the center of an expanding regional railroad network.
The effect of the war on agriculture—which had formerly been
dependent on slave labor—was more serious. The breakup of large
plantations resulted in the rise of tenant farming and
sharecropping, systems often accompanied by poverty and abuse.
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After World War I agriculture suffered further setbacks as the boll
weevil caused great destruction to cotton crops and the soil became
exhausted through erosion and overuse. A farm depression began in
Georgia long before the general depression of the 1930s. The state
weathered the depression, but its subsequent history was marked by
political and racial conflict.
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