<span>Four clear options emerged for the freedmen and women after the war: obtain land, move, work for former masters, or sharecrop. Some freedmen were able to obtain their own personal land to work to support themselves and their families. Others opted to move to the cities and the North to find work that was not agrarian based. Directly after the war, plantation owners established a contract labor system that employed their former slaves</span>
<span>The belief that the country should be run by the learned elite.
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Neither one of the sides were fruitful in getting through the resistance of the other and bringing about a stalemate. Trench fighting developed due the disappointment of the Schliffen Plan. It was another arrangement of fighting which was an immediate reason for the stalemate, and this is the reason. It was an arrangement of resistance not offense.
They were accused of overproducing oil. Hope this Helps! :^)