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The war for independence from Britain was a long and economical costly conflict. The New England fishing industry was (36) destroyed, and the tobacco (37) in the South were also hard (38) The trade in imports was seriously (39) , since the war was fought against the country that had previously monopolized the supply of (40) goods. The most serious (41) were felt in the cities. Because they depended on (42) activity. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston were all (43) for a time by British troops. (44) . American income from ship building and commerce declined, harming the entire economy of the urban areas. The decline in trade brought a fall in the American standard of living. (45) Some of them joined the Continental army, or if they were loyal to Britain, they departed with the British forces. (46) . The destroys produced by the fighting of the war, by the loss of sources of credit, and by the lack of new investment all created a period of economic stagnation that lasted for the next twenty years.