RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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The elite planters gradually began to relinquish its hold on political, social, and economic power in order to provide a more democratic approach to government.
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Most Southerners in this period lived on family farms and owned a small number of slaves.
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Large cities developed in the South due to its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean and local rivers.
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Few immigrants were attracted to the area because there was little fertile land available and little industry.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the history of the Southern United States, the Antebellum Period (from Latin: ante bellum, lit. ‘before the war’) spanned the end of the War of 1812 to the start of the American Civil War in 1861. The Antebellum South was characterized by the use of slavery and the culture it fostered.
Detailed explanation-2: -Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property was enforced by violence–actual or threatened. People, black and white, lived together within these parameters, and their lives together took many forms.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Antebellum Period in American history is generally considered to be the period before the Civil War and after the War of 1812, although some historians expand it to all the years from the adoption of the Constitution in 1789 to the beginning of the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1860, the South was still predominantly agricultural, highly dependent upon the sale of staples to a world market. By 1815, cotton was the most valuable export in the United States; by 1840, it was worth more than all other exports combined.