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Before war: Normal kids
During war: Volunteered/Stayed home to be workers of family
After war: Went back to being kids/were family workers

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Before war: Mainly poor whites
During war: Fought
After war: Farmed

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Before war: Built
During war: Fought
After war: Built again

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Before war: Making money
During war: low supplies/borrowed money
After war: Debt

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Before war: Didn't own slaves unless wealthy
During war: Fought
After war: Treat new freedmen not as equal but not as slaves

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Before war: Unionist
During war: Unionist/Soldiers
After war: Hated by South

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Before war: Lived in North
During war: Fight for North/Lived in North
After war: Moved South to make money

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Before war: Poor whites/blacks
During war: Soldiers
After war: Had some money/farmers

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Before war: Struggled to provide for family
During war: Soldiers
After war: Struggled again/began farming for money

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Before war: Slaves/poor
During war: Slaves/Soldiers
After war: Poor Farmers

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*Most came to the South to take advantage of it, or to make money, they're also known as carpetbaggers
*They weren't entirely accepted by the South though
*Some pushed for womens rights
*They were called carpetbaggers because they allegedly came to the South with all their belongings that they carried in a carpetbag
*there were men and women carpetbaggers

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*Many women became widows because their spouses died in war
*They feared economic competition from freedmen
*They pushed for womens rights and got a few of them
*Some women were also carpetbaggers
*Many elite women had to take non-traditional female roles because of their spouses dying in war

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*Many freedmen after they left plantations went to search for relatives or for a taste of freedom
*Some freedmen went back to their original plantation because they had nowhere else to go
*When the freedmen's bureau was established, it help freedmen create churches and other self-run institutions
*It also helped freedmen find jobs and create courts to protect illiterate works
*Schools were also established which helped freedmen learn to read and write

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*These farmers were poor, so they were never able to afford slaves
*They at one point went to cotton production in hopes to make money
*After slavery was mostly demolished, small farmers now had to compete with freedmen who were mostly sharecroppers, for crop marketing
*They also became resentful and hostile to freedmen because of that
*The Civil war damages put small farmers in even more debt and misery

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*Plantation owners during reconstruction became less wealthy or basically poor because of new laws
*Almost all plantation lost their slaves because slavery was not a thing after the war
*They had to do their own labor and had to manage their own house chores and plantation
*Because they thought that their former slaves wouldn't leave their plantation, but did so, they became hostile and resentful to freedmen
*Some freedmen went into sharecropping relationships with former slave owners, which revived the master-slave relationship a bit