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Why did many southerners become tenant farmers after the civil war?
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∙ 13y ago
It was the obvious next step up from slavery - working the same kind of land, but part-owning the harvest.
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Why were northerners called southerners rebels in the civil war?
because they are not southerners they keep away from them
Who help pick cotton in the south after the civil war?
Many of the same 'hands', but on a sharecropping basis - tenant farmers who owed some of the crop to the landlord, and free to sell the rest.
How many southerners did not own slaves?
Fully 3/4 of southerners did not own slaves at the eve of the Civil War.
What did Southerners call cotton during the civil war?
they called it pooffy
How did the Southerners raise money during the Civil War?
crops and agriculture
Why didnt the south develop industry before the civil war?
Southerners were plantation farmers, so they didn't invest in the industry. Instead, they invested in slaves.
Was the first shot in the civil war was fired by northerners or southerners?
southerners
What was the Reconstruction 1864-1916 about?
Reconstruction is how the North punished the South for starting the Civil War (or War Between the States.) The army was stationed in the South until 1877. Blacks were freed, but some had an even worse time as tenant farmers than as slaves. Some white Southerners joined the Ku Klux Klan to harrass blacks and other groups they did not like.
Why were northerners called southerners rebels in the civil war?
because they are not southerners they keep away from them
Who help pick cotton in the south after the civil war?
Many of the same 'hands', but on a sharecropping basis - tenant farmers who owed some of the crop to the landlord, and free to sell the rest.
Southerners ate in the civil war?
The southerners had to change their diets during the Civil War. They ate potatoes, bread, salted pork, peas, and apples.
Southerners name during the civil war?
The Confederacy
What did they farm in the South during the civil war?
The Southerners farmed COTTON, the Civil War.
How many southerners did not own slaves?
Fully 3/4 of southerners did not own slaves at the eve of the Civil War.
Who were the southerners that wanted to withdraw from the civil war called?
Separatist
What were southerners called who voted republican after the civil war?
Radicals
Who opposed union in the civil war?
The Confederacy....
