5. "Exodusters" is the term used to describe African Americans who left the Southern states after Reconstruction ended. Many Exodusters settled in the West, particularly in Kansas.
What was one reason Exodusters left the South after Reconstruction?
A Racial violence and discrimination in the South had increased.
B. Industrialization led to more available factory jobs in the West.
C. The majority of the people in western states were African American.
Southern states sought to prevent African Americans from sharecropping.
D.