RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Paying wage laborers was too expensive
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They made more money off the sharecropping system
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Sharecropping kept blacks bound to servitude as agricultural laborers
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Sharecropping required less work
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -American sharecroppers worked a section of the plantation independently, usually growing cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar, and other cash crops, and receiving half of the parcel’s output. Sharecroppers also often received their farming tools and all other goods from the landowner they were contracted with.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which statement best describes the system of sharecropping? Sharecropping offered formerly enslaved people an equal opportunity to participate in the Southern economy.