RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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Multiple families owning farm land and working together.
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Blacks became reliant once again on former owners and their land, paying an expensive rent which kept them tied to a contract.
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They waited to have more rights and be equal to free whites.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Landowners divided plantations into 20-to 50-acre plots suitable for farming by a single family. In exchange for the use of land, a cabin, and supplies, sharecroppers agreed to raise a cash crop and give a portion, usually 50 percent, of the crop to their landlord.
Detailed explanation-2: -Through sharecropping, white landowners hoarded the profits of Black workers’ agricultural labor, trapping them in poverty and debt for generations. Black people who challenged this system of domination faced threats, violence, and even murder.
Detailed explanation-3: -Rise of the Sharecropping System Under this system, families would rent small plots of land, or shares, to work themselves; in return, they would give a portion of their crop to the landowner at the end of the harvest season.