RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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It moved from agriculture to heavy industry.
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It was controlled directly by the federal government.
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It shifted to a service economy.
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It depended on sharecropping instead of slave labor.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Southern agriculture gradually changed and improved. New methods of farming allowed people in the South to raise larger crops. Northerners invested large sums of money to build railroads and factories in the South. As a result, people began moving from the farms to the cities looking for jobs.
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 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.