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a loyalty oath
Slaves and farmers who asked landowners for land to work would be the least benefit since they would get, usually, indebted to that person.
they worked to put white southerners back into power
The Redeemers
It allowed southern children to get an education, but segregation made it expensive.
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President in return for withdrawing federal troops from the South.
The carpetbaggers affected post-Civil War southern politics by insinuating themselves in the local southern economic and political structure. Proposing short-term policies that were profitable to themselves, carpetbaggers slowed the Souths post-war recovery by decades.
Churchs
The Wade-Davis Bill required that a majority of prewar southern voters swear loyalty to the Union.
The Emancipation Proclamation. This allowed both white and black slaves to become free in the south, although it was not the most popular law in that area.
How did Reconstruction benefit landowners in the agricultural economy of the South?
