To stop Republicans from taking control of state governments. (These are now called Democrats -2017)
all of the above
Economic problems and depression around the world
The confederate states think that there should no longer be slaves.
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
They lacked experience in living independently.
They had no choice about continuing to work.
Cutting taxes for landowners
it would help them fit in with white society
The Great Plains!..ApEx!
The Great Plaines
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.
take power away from the southern planters.
leave the southern states immediantly
They went to white churches or held their own services in secret.
Forced into convict labour until they were adults