RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Freedmen achieved social and political equality in the south.
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Freedman played an important role in local and state government.
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Freedman achieved economic independence from their former masters.
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Freedmen often remained in a state of economic dependence on their former masters.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -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.
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."