USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

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SS.912.A.2.6What was an important effect of the sharecropping system and debt peonage?
A
Freedmen achieved social and political equality in the South.
B
Freedmen played an important role in local and state government.
C
Freedmen achieved economic independence from their former masters.
D
Freedmen often remained in a state of economic dependence on their former masters.
Explanation: 

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: -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-3: -What was the main effect of the system of debt peonage that emerged in the South during the late 19th century? African Americans labored in a system that was nearly the same as slavery. Debt peonage requires that a person’s debt be paid off through work.

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