RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE ELECTION OF 1876
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Thousands of blacks who owned businesses.
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A secret society that used violence towards blacks.
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Thousands of blacks who left the South for Kansas
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Freedmen who rented their land as sharecroppers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -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.” The post-Civil War era should have been a time of jubilation and progress for the African-Americans of the South.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Exodusters were African Americans who fled North Carolina because of economic and political grievances after the Reconstruction era.