US Civil War

Economic problems and depression around the world

two radical political terrorist groups that had association with the thoughts of the KKK. Their chief intention was to oppose the rights of the freedmen, and were motivated by racial supremacists views.

Scalawags were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.

Southerners who were for redemption wanted to return power to the white Democrats

farmers worked land owned by others

it was legal as a form of punishment

Cutting taxes for landowners

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.

all of the above

dependence of the south on the north

Criminals

leave the southern states immediantly

let the landowner decide what to plant

The Republican Party

Farmers used the invention of barbed wire to claim land

Debt peonage