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Why did many former slaves migrate to southern states?
People don't migrate, but animals migrate. Former slaves were all ready located in the southern states.
Which candidate did most southern states support?
In the presidential election of 1860 eleven of Southern States supported John Cabell Breckenridge, the former Vice President during Buchanan Administration.
Why does it make sense that carpetbaggers were hated in the south?
Actually, it doesn't make sense that they were hated. Northerners who moved south after the civil war were called "carpetbaggers" by critics who claimed they carried all their things in one bag. Actually, most were educated people, business and political leaders, northern blacks, and former soldiers. They sought to invest in the ruined southern lands and form partnerships with planters. Sometimes they met with violence, ostracism or derision because of their radical views, but most southern capital starved people accepted them to help rebuild their economy. Many were also active in political and social reform and in 1867 they won the most southern political offices. They wanted to modernize the southern economy through railroads and other internal building.
How did the abolition of slavery change African Americans way of life in the southern states following the Civil War?
It led the African MEN to have Rights to vote, was still lynching and beatings, and led former slaves
What factors led to the end of reconstruction?
Reconstruction collapsed around 1877, when Southern Democrats gained power in all the former Confederate states. The Southern Democrats opposed the reforms of Reconstruction and deprived African-Americans of the political rights they had gained during Reconstruction.
