RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
HOMESTEAD ACT
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the lack of sharecropping opportunities for African Americans in the South
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the spread of laws supporting segregation and discrimination in the South
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The refusal of Southern states to observe the Twentieth Amendment
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the impact of environmental damage on southern agriculture
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many Exodusters settled in the West, particularly in Kansas. What was one reason Exodusters left the South after Reconstruction? Racial violence and discrimination in the South had increased. Industrialization led to more available factory jobs in the West.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Exodus of 1879 was the first mass migration of African Americans from the South after the Civil War. These migrants, most of them former slaves, became known as exodusters, a name which took inspiration from the biblical Exodus, during which Moses led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt and into the Promised Land.
Detailed explanation-3: -Beginning in the mid-1870s, as Northern support for Radical Reconstruction retreated, thousands of African Americans chose to leave the South in the hope of finding equality on the western frontier.
Detailed explanation-4: -Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879. It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-5: -The large-scale black migration from the South to Kansas came to be known as the “Great Exodus, ” and those participating in it were called “exodusters.” Conditions in the Post-War South. The post-Civil War era should have been a time of jubilation and progress for the African-Americans of the South.