Little Women
what was the economy like
does it say anywhere in the book what the economy was like during this time period?
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The setting of the novel is the period during the Civil War. The Civil War economy was tight. All manufacturing and a majority of the money was in the North. After the blockade, the South had no way to export the cotton on which their economy was based.
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