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.
few or no enslaved people at all
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.
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.
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.
I know this answer, because i am studying for an AP us history exam. The answe is 0. Most families in the antebellum south (88%) owned no slaves at all!
Most white men in the antebellum South could best be described as landowners who owned slaves and wielded significant social and economic power within their communities. They were part of the dominant class that enforced racial hierarchies and benefited from the institution of slavery.
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.
white southerners
a tobacco field on a large plantation
White men governed the South after the Civil war because most Southerners did not like that blacks were free from slavery , therefor they did not want a black to govern one of their states .
scakawags changed the government in the south by bringing the republican ideas to the politics of south white southerners were referred a scalawags by their enemies carpetbaggers won in most of the cases and that led to scalawags moving towards
a tobacco field on a large plantation:)
No. Most Southerners - even the majority of WHITE Southerners - owned no land at all.
They lived in cities and plantations in the south.
The most pro-union white southerners were known as Unionists or Southern Unionists. They were individuals in the Confederate states who opposed secession and supported the Union during the American Civil War. They often faced persecution and were a minority in the South during this time.
Most southerners lived on plantations during the 1800's. As a result the South during the 1800's had a primarily agricultural based economy.