RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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As a result of limited economic opportunities in the South, many free blacks in the 1860’s and 1870’s turned to
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sharecropping
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factory work
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developing their own businesses
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homesteading
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Through sharecropping, white landowners hoarded the profits of Black workers’ agricultural labor, trapping them in poverty and debt for generations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why was it difficult for southern free blacks to gain economic independence after the Civil War? Southern blacks emerged from slavery with no money to begin their new lives, so they had to rely on the crop-lien and sharecropping systems.
Detailed explanation-3: -After the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers. The absence of cash or an independent credit system led to the creation of sharecropping.
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