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.
most white southerners were non-slaveholding family farmers
The term used by southerners for a return to Democratic white rule was redeemers.
A southerner who supported the Republican Party.
Scalawags
Redemption
most white southerners were non-slaveholding family farmers
With the Black Codes, a law designed to drive former slaves back to the plantations.
That place that were integrated were segregated.
Carpet Baggers
Black and white Southerners developed etiquette for dealing with segregation laws Segregation laws led to social separation between white and black Southerners
Radical white southerners did everything in their power to oppose rights for African Americans. Namely, the white southerners would African Americans to take tests and pay outrageous fees in order to vote.
Cuz they wanted to
Scalawags. White Southerners supporting the Republicans.
black and white southerners were legally segregated
black and white southerners were legally segregated
The number of southern planters was relatively small compared to the overall number of white southerners. Planters made up only a small percentage of the white population in the South, with the majority of white southerners being small farmers, laborers, or non-landowners.
That they would lose profit from all of the cotton fields