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Which of these were often tenants or sharecroppers on the same plantation they had lived on before the war?
former slaves
What was a goal for the radical republicans?
redistributing plantation lands to former slaves
Why keep slaves?
The South's economy was a farming economy. Many plantation owners relied on slaves work on the plantations.
Who were tenants or sharecroppers on the same plantation they had lived on before the war?
former slaves
Why didn't white plantation owners let former slaves work as employees?
Greed
What did the Fourteenth Amendment grant to former slaves apex?
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What was the type of farming that many former slaves practiced after the Civil War?
sharecropping
Why did many freed slaves remain on or near their former plantation homes?
They were usually assured of steady employment.
The measures restricting former slaves to working in farming and domestic service were the?
The Black Codes
What is the history of the Haughville neighborhood in Indianapolis Indiana?
It use to be a plantation owned by a man whose last named was Haughville. When slavery was abolished, he sold his plantation to his former slaves. They were glad to buy the land in which they called their own. The land was called Haughville, named after the former plantation owner himself.
What term refers to slaves who performed physical work out of doors usually involving farming and working on a plantation?
Those were "field hands".
After the Civil War many newly freed slaves migrated to the West. What would be considered one reason for this migration?
Many former slaves knew how to be good farmers. They had worked as plantation slaves for decades. There were opportunities in the Western frontiers to establish new lives and earn a living by farming. This also allowed them to escape from the white terrorist groups of the post-war South.
