USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -They almost never got any land, either through federal action or through state action. Freed people did get land, but by and large it was through working it themselves. That was a minority of Southern black farmers. Most of them turned into tenants and sharecroppers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some emancipated slaves quickly fled from the neighborhood of their owners, while others became wage laborers for former owners. Most importantly, African Americans could make choices for themselves about where they labored and the type of work they performed.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Contents. The Freedmen’s Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.