RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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It gave families the opportunities to make money and break out of poverty.
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It allowed families to purchase lands after they farmed for a set number of years.
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It made families more transient since they moved from place to place to harvest crops.
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It kept families in cycles of debt and dependency on wealthier land owners.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -High interest rates, unpredictable harvests, and unscrupulous landlords and merchants often kept tenant farm families severely indebted, requiring the debt to be carried over until the next year or the next.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was an important effect of the sharecropping system and debt peonage? Freedmen often remained in a slave of economic dependence on their former masters.
Detailed explanation-4: -The high interest rates landlords and sharecroppers charged for goods bought on credit (sometimes as high as 70 percent a year) transformed sharecropping into a system of economic dependency and poverty. The freedmen found that “freedom could make folks proud but it didn’t make ‘em rich."