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How did white southerners respond to the end of the old order in the South?
Most white Southerners reacted to defeat and emancipation with dismay. Many families had suffered the loss of loved ones and the destruction of property. Some thought of leaving the South altogether, or retreated into nostalgia for the Old South and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
How many slaves did most southerners own?
few or no enslaved people at all
Why do most southerners dislike and distrust scalawags and capetbaggers?
The southerners hated carpetbaggers because they were notherners who moved to the south after the Civil War. Southerners hated scalawags because they supported reconstruction in the south after the war.
What can you deduce about the south's financial position going into the civil war?
The South only had a small financial institutions, while most of the wealth and currency resided in the North. In addition, Southerners bore a lot of debt on their farms. They were not in a good position to finance a war effort.
Antebellum was the period before what war?
The word "antebellum" simply means "before a war." It is most often used to describe the period of US history before the US Civil War, but it could refer to any war.
