RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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A system where a landowner allows a tenant to use a portion of the land in return for a portion of crops
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A system where the tenant owns a portion of the land and receives tax money for the produced crops
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A contract between former slaves and landowners that the freedmen will work on the land in return for a formal employment contract
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An agreement between a landowner and an tenant where the landowner gives majority of the land to a tenant to farm
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.
Detailed explanation-2: -With a sharecropping contract, poor farmers were granted access to farm small plots of land. Instead of paying rent in cash, they were required to give a portion of the crop yield, called shares, back to the landowner.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sharecropping is a form of land tenancy, in which the landowner permits the tenant to use his land in return for a stipulated fraction of the output (the ‘share’). It is an institutional arrangement which has prevailed in both developing countries and less-developed countries [LD(s)].
Detailed explanation-4: -Comment. Solution : Most of the arable land in Champaran district was divided into large estates owned by Englishmen and worked by Indian tenants. The chief commercial crop was indigo. The landlords compelled all tenants to plant 15 percent of their holdings with indigo and surrender the entire indigo harvest as rent.