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Mainly, food procurement. Most of the southerners were small farmers, and less than 9% owned slaves. So with most of the men at war, women and children had to work the farms.
As the war progressed and Union troops invaded the south, they took no mercy on these helpless ones, burning crops, stealing livestock, even burning homes.
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How did poor white southerners feel about enslaved people?
They felt equal to them
What 3 major groups of people faced hardships and fears in the civil war?
poor white southerners, plantation owners, and black southerners
How did most poor white southerners feel about enslaved people?
Many poor white southerners viewed enslaved people as competition for jobs and resented their presence, which created economic tensions. However, some poor whites also relied on the racial hierarchy that placed them above enslaved individuals to boost their own social status.
Who was a leader of the radical republicans who wanted economic justice for both African Americans and poor white southerners?
thaddeus stevens
Cultural and social life of rural white southerners?
Many rural white Southerners were poor and lived simple lives. Their social life tended to be isolated from the privileged whites. Art and music were a part of their lives as they sewed clothing and constructed their log cabins.
What did many white southerners do to try and stop the movements?
what did many white southerners do to try and stop the movement
What were most white southerners in the antebellum south?
most white southerners were non-slaveholding family farmers
What was the term used by southerners for a democratic white rule?
The term used by southerners for a return to Democratic white rule was redeemers.
Conservatives resist white southrners feel about changes?
The white Southerners do not like change. The Southerners are set in their own ways.
what was the term by southerners for a return to democratic, white rule?
The term used by southerners for a return to Democratic white rule was redeemers.
Who benefited the most from Indian removal?
white southerners
What was the term used by southerners for the return to democratic white rule?
The term used by southerners for a return to Democratic white rule was redeemers.
