In the 1870s, Black Americans who settled the West were nicknamed "exodusters" - a reference to the exodus of the ancient Israelites from Egypt. Which of the following statements most accurately describes who the "exodusters really were? small business owners who wanted to sell goods to Westem settlers laborers who helped build the transcontinental railroad Orefugees from Southern violence who became small farmers in the West O former Union soldiers who wanted to become gold miners
Following the Civil War, the situation of the majority of the southern whites was not one of welcoming reforms and reconstruction. Many powerful plantation families, civil war veterans of the confederacy and southern politicians formed many underground resistance organizations and paramilitary terrorist groups like the White League and Ku Klux Klan. To escape not only the repressive and segregationist laws but full fledged violence and lynching, many started ,migrating out from the south to rest of the country by 1870s. One of the earliest major waves of this migration went to Kansas in 1879, "the land of John Brown", as its environment was relatively a lot less discriminatory. They came to be known as the "Exodusters".
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