When the Civil War ended, why did the vast majority of former slaves remain in the South?
Question 16 options:
Few jobs were available in the North, as the North already had large amounts of cheap labor (from immigration, families on farms, children and young women in factories, as was as many Union soldiers returning.
Low literacy and low skill levels forced most of the formerly enslaved to remain in their old manual labor jobs.
Most formerly enslaved had almost no wealth, which made moving difficult to almost impossible.
Their base of support, mostly in the form of families and newly-forming African American communities, were almost exclusively nearby, with few to no contacts in the North.
All of the above.