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the plantation owners had lost all their slaves.

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they lost a whole lot of money and they could not use confederate dollars.

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they had to do the things that the made the slaves do

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they loved share cropping because it kind of gives them a little power and the pay the slave as little as possible.

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they were upset with the NAACP.

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the freedmen's bureau helped them when slavery was over.

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some stayed with their former owner for a while before moving on.

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they started share cropping with their former owner the Gullah slave had easy because they were used to working their own hours.

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they received 40 acres and mule.

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the freedmen bureau build schools for the freed slaves

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Many white small farmers turned to cotton production during Reconstruction as a way of obtaining needed cash.

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As cotton prices declined, many lost their land.

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one third of the white farmers in the cotton states were tenants rather than landowners, and the South as a whole had become even more dependent on cotton than it had been before the war.

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war plunged many small farmers into debt and poverty, and led many to turn to cotton growing.

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Some found economic salvation in cotton farming, but many others fell further and further into debt.

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some of their husbands were disable and could not work so the women had to work

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since the slaves were free the women had to the house hold chores

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they lost their social status

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they were scared that the freed slave would retaliate

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they were called carpetbaggers

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the came as all types of occupations

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They were
accused of coming to the South to
28. plunder and to encourage African Americans to vote for the Republican Party.

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this political connection was in the best interests of the African American community.

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Although many came to help, the
carpetbaggers were not accepted by most of the white South Carolina society.