Describe how the economy changed in Texas after the start of the Civil War. Describe changes in food, goods, supplies, transportation, and agriculture.

War-related industry lured farmers, small-town residents and others into developing urban centers. Many workers were women, and many were other than Caucasian. Texas quickly became more urban than rural, with a net population growth of 33 percent, and the Great Depression faded into memory.

After the civil war, there was an emergence of southern farm tenancy, a system of near slavery without legal sanctions with tenant farmers in place of slaves ... The number of farms in Texas rose from about 61,000 in 1870 to around 174,000 in 1880 and 350,000 by 1900 where farm and ranching enterprises expanded rapidly.