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Many Left the plantations looking for relatives, while most just looked for a taste of freedom.

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Former slaves did not often leave the south as soon as they had the opportunity to escape because they had no where to go

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Some stayed and sharecropped with their former owners to earn some money before they left

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Many were set on the fact that the freedmen bureau would give them 40 acres and a mule

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some were scared to leave because they had never been off the plantation

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the impact on women after the war depended on their social status

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Many had suffered from social status loss because of their husbands

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do to freedmen sharecropping , many women and their husbands feared economic competition

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Some started a vote for some rights

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Many Elite social status women had to take on non-traditional roles

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After the war they had lost almost all of their labor force due to the being free

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Many were losing money rapidly due to Freedmen sharecropping

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They were not happy about losing their labor force

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they were now struggling because they had to Pay for more workers instead of making them do it for free

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Many found it hard to adjust to slavery because they werent used to having no control over their labor force

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Many were thrown into poverty

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Some entered into cotton production

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major change from the prewar days due to the fact that they were not used to growing things for more people than their families

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Freedmen were taking most of the work from them due to sharecropping

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They were already poor before the war and now they are even more poor

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Although many came to help they were not accepted by most southerners

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They were accused of coming to the south to plunder and to encourage African Americans to vote for the republican party

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They were called carpetbaggers due to them having luggage bags that were made of a carpet type material

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They were called carpetbaggers due to them having luggage bags that were made of a carpet type material

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They were there to help the south during the reconstruction

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They are called emigrants and not immigrants because they are not moving countries but only states