Exodusters

• From which state did 50% of homesteaders leave?

  Kansas
• Who were the Exodusters?

  African Americans who migrated to Kansas
• How many African Americans moved to Kansas by 1880?

  43,107
• Why were the KKK an issue for the Exodusters?

  They were hostile towards them and against their freedom
• What was sharecropping?

  Formerly enslaved people worked for a landowner and received a share of food