Place yourself in the role of a southern white farmer in the period 18

Place yourself in the role of a southern white farmer in the period 1865-1877. Describe your reaction to the major events of Reconstruction in those years.

What will be an ideal response?

ANSWER
Southern white farmers suffered a loss in status and experienced frustration and fear. The disruption of the southern economy adversely affected their livelihoods, and many landowners lost their land and were forced into sharecropping. In many ways, their condition paralleled that of the freedmen, but white farmers continued to identify with white leadership in the South on the basis of race, not with the common economic condition they shared with poor African Americans.