RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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They left the South to take advantage of new opportunities in the West.
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They joined groups such as the Ku Klux Klan that promised to provide new jobs.
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They borrowed money from banks in the North in order to purchase land and homes.
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They entered into sharecropping arrangements to work land owned by someone else
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Detailed explanation-1: -After the Civil War, many African Americans and poor white farmers did not have the resources to buy their own land. Because of this, what did these groups do in an attempt to improve their financial situation? They left the South to take advantage of new opportunities in the West.
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: -The small percentage of those who were plantation owners found themselves without a source of labor, and many plantations had to be auctioned off (often at greatly reduced value) to settle debts and support the family.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.