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The purpose of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 was to put some order in the chaos of the colonization of Africa. It divided the continent up into specific areas for colonization.
<span>Free blacks who left the South to escape both the persecution following the Civil War, in the 1870s, were known as Exodusters. They left at first to settle in Cherokee territory and eventually settled in Scott County, the first "colony" being Nicodemus.</span>
The farmers of northern alliance wanted a natural alliance to include African American members. It was a financial movement which came into existence in 1875. The farmers of the United States of America were part of this movement and several other political organizations also involve themselves in this organization.
The reason behind this movement was to abolish or end the negative effects of crop-lien system (a credit system) on farmers in the period after the American Civil War and save the rights of the American farmers.