the White Line, the Knights of the White Camellia, and the White Brotherhood
Really adds to how much hatred and violence there is.
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cities grew rapidly after the war as migrants from the countryside—particularly freed people—flocked to urban centers. Cities became centers of Republican control.
This shows how in all of history black resident are placed in urban areas while white people controlled bigger cities and live in suburbs. A continuing cycle.
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enfranchisement
Enfranchisement=the right to vote
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greenbacks
Greenbacks=paper issued by the government (our current dollar bills!)
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Sharecropping often led to cycles of debt that kept families bound to the land.38
Sharecropping= white owners keeping freed slaves under contract to basically keep them as slaves again
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Wages plummeted and a growing system of debt peonage trapped workers in endless cycles of poverty.
Really hones in on the idea of how after the war the United States was still struggling.
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However, violent resistance and terrorism continued in the South for over a decade.
This shows me how the Civil war never really stopped after the surrender because the issues were still there. Only the war stopped but the problems were never fixed, not until much later.
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In the South, limits on human freedom endured and would stand for nearly a century more.
Really talking about how the Civil war barely started the conversation about race and equality. Black Americans everywhere but especially in the south had to fight for their freedom for many centuries after the Civil war.
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citizenship and equality
This comment is mostly about enslaved people and their future. Especially their rights moving on and people reevaluating what the constitution really means.
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The future of the South was uncertain. How would these states be brought back into the Union? Would they be conquered territories or equal states? How would they rebuild their governments, economies, and social systems? What rights did freedom confer on formerly enslaved people?
I think this is how most of the United States felt after the civil war. There was much uncertainty about the future of enslaved people and the future of the states. This is the reconstruction era.
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