The demise of debt peonage in the post-Civil War South was partly due to all of the following except

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The demise of debt peonage in the post-Civil War South was not significantly impacted by federal land reform legislation aimed at redistributing the ownership of southern land. Most of the efforts to redistribute land did not come to fruition, and the systemic issues of debt peonage were more directly addressed by factors such as the arrival of the boll weevil, which devastated the cotton economy, improved transportation and the growth of mail-order houses, and increased urbanization and industrialization, which provided alternative economic opportunities.

The Demise of Debt Peonage in the Post-Civil War South