Following the US Civil War and the end of slavery in the United States, many people believed that Afro - Americans were undesirable people. They believed that white people were far superior to Black people. With those thoughts, segregation was practiced in many places in the South. Through segregation, they hoped to separate the races, and to a large degree control the Afro-American population.
they segregated blacks and whites.
enforced the strict separation of the races
The Jim Crow Law segregated the blacks & whites
Society was a caste-like system with poor whites at the bottom of the white social ladder.
whites.
whites and blacks were segregated harshly.
they segregated blacks and whites.
enforced the strict separation of the races
The Jim Crow Law segregated the blacks & whites
The Jim Crow Law segregated the blacks & whites
The Jim Crow Law segregated the blacks & whites
Whites without slaves.(50%)
Society was a caste-like system with poor whites at the bottom of the white social ladder.
whites.
There was great variation in the reasons for fighting. As generalisations though, some of the prime reasons that poor whites fought were to defned their homeland and to maintain the Southern society that they were familiar with.
The different groups that made up Southern society include,the planters, the yeomen farmers, the poor whites, the slaves, and free African Americans.
The makeup of southern colonial society had the planters at the top, controlling agriculture. Slightly above the black slaves were poor whites, but they were also enslaved in many cases.