Representation of the South increased because more Southern states were created during Reconstruction.
it was legal as a form of punishment
In sharecropping, both freed slaves and poor whites borrowed land, seeds, and tools from a landowner, in exchange for a share of the crop at harvest time.
held their own services in secret
Journeys made across the United States in the mid-1800s were long and dangerous.
Grandfather clauses were based upon individual African American's family histories.