<span>Nativist sentiment was arguably the strongest with potential for violence in America during the 18000's. The county was undergoing a large amount of political change coupled with socio-economic and racial change. Additionally the amount of immigrants and national subcultures that existed strongly resisted change from new groups entering the nation during that time.</span>
Silk road of course or it can be silk
Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War. Under black codes, many states required Black people to sign yearly labor contracts; if they refused, they risked being arrested, fined and forced into unpaid labor.
Even as former enslaved people fought to assert their independence and gain economic autonomy during the earliest years of Reconstruction. While the codes granted certain freedoms to African Americans—including the right to buy and own property, marry, make contracts and testify in court (only in cases involving people of their own race)—their primary purpose was to restrict Black peoples’ labor and activity. Black people who broke labor contracts were subject to arrest, beating and forced labor, and apprenticeship laws forced many minors into unpaid labor for white planters.
It is due to i believe the rise of cotton
