RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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Sharecropping favored the freeedmen.
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Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping
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Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty
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Many state governments offered loan for sharecropping farmers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -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-4: -Which statement best describes the system of sharecropping? Sharecropping offered formerly enslaved people an equal opportunity to participate in the Southern economy.