The New South movement was an effort by southern leaders to integrate the South more fully with the rest of the US and to do away with the old plantation-based economy. It largely failed to gain significant momentum in terms of race relations and economic development by WWI.
He wanted to control the port of new Orleans
Well they were effected in many ways. some had to live without fathers and some even had there homes destroyed but most important of all is that they all had FREEDOM
Reign of terror............................................................................i believe