During the Reconstruction Era, Poor White Southerners

question 46

Multiple Choice

During the Reconstruction Era, poor white southerners

• A) generally embraced a religion centered on camp meeting revivals.
• B) effectively combined with poor blacks to achieve political control of the southern state governments.
• C) tended to accept the blacks as their social equals.
• D) escaped from the tenant farming system.

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Definitions:

Confederacy's Economy

The economic system of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, characterized by agriculture and reliant on slavery.

Class System

A social stratification where people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, often based on wealth, education, and occupation.

Labor Shortage

Describes a situation in which there are not enough qualified workers available to fill the job positions in a particular industry or overall economy.

Southern Planters

Wealthy individuals in the antebellum South who owned large farms or plantations and typically relied on enslaved labor for their agricultural operations.