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most white southerners were non-slaveholding family farmers
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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.
Most white men in the antebellum South could best be described as?
Non-slaveholding family farmers
How many slaves did a majority of white families own in the antebellum south?
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!
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.
Who benefited the most from Indian removal?
white southerners
What was most likely seen in the antebellum south?
a tobacco field on a large plantation
Why should the white men govern the south after war?
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 .
Which have been most likely seen in the antebellum south?
a tobacco field on a large plantation:)
How did scalawags change government in the south?
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
Did all Southerners own land even if it was only a small amount?
No. Most Southerners - even the majority of WHITE Southerners - owned no land at all.
Where did most southerners live by the 1850?
They lived in cities and plantations in the south.
Most southerners lived on?
Most southerners lived on plantations during the 1800's. As a result the South during the 1800's had a primarily agricultural based economy.
Who would most likely be a member of Ku Klux Klan?
white Southerners
