When Congress voted to approve Augustus Garland as governor a year after a corrupt 1874 election, Arkansas and other Southern states began to envision a revolution in which the old Confederate states could update their economies using Northern capital and industry to replace plantation agriculture. Contemporary Arkansans also believed cultural and social change could come with this transition. Although changes did take place, the state suffered from agrarian revolt, segregation, public corruption, resistance to change and disfranchisement instead of benefiting from a new diversified economy.