RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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After the Civil War, how did sharecropping impact the South?
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It provided money that was used to build factories.
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It kept the former slaves in an inferior economic status.
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It equally distributed farm land between the rich and the poor.
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It encouraged poor Northerners to move south to farm.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The system of sharecropping resulted in keeping freed slaves economically disadvantaged. They were not paid money for their labor and received just a portion of the crop as their ‘pay’. This kept them dependent on the landowners.
Detailed explanation-2: -Through sharecropping, white landowners hoarded the profits of Black workers’ agricultural labor, trapping them in poverty and debt for generations.
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