most white southerners were non-slaveholding family farmers
Most white Southerners reacted to defeat and emancipation with dismay. Many families had suffered the loss of loved ones and the destruction of property. Some thought of leaving the South altogether, or retreated into nostalgia for the Old South and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
few or no enslaved people at all
The southerners hated carpetbaggers because they were notherners who moved to the south after the Civil War. Southerners hated scalawags because they supported reconstruction in the south after the war.
The South only had a small financial institutions, while most of the wealth and currency resided in the North. In addition, Southerners bore a lot of debt on their farms. They were not in a good position to finance a war effort.
The word "antebellum" simply means "before a war." It is most often used to describe the period of US history before the US Civil War, but it could refer to any war.
Non-slaveholding family farmers
I know this answer, because i am studying for an AP us history exam. The answe is 0. Most families in the antebellum south (88%) owned no slaves at all!
Most white Southerners reacted to defeat and emancipation with dismay. Many families had suffered the loss of loved ones and the destruction of property. Some thought of leaving the South altogether, or retreated into nostalgia for the Old South and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
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a tobacco field on a large plantation
White men governed the South after the Civil war because most Southerners did not like that blacks were free from slavery , therefor they did not want a black to govern one of their states .
a tobacco field on a large plantation:)
scakawags changed the government in the south by bringing the republican ideas to the politics of south white southerners were referred a scalawags by their enemies carpetbaggers won in most of the cases and that led to scalawags moving towards
No. Most Southerners - even the majority of WHITE Southerners - owned no land at all.
They lived in cities and plantations in the south.
Most southerners lived on plantations during the 1800's. As a result the South during the 1800's had a primarily agricultural based economy.
white Southerners