RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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A Major redistribution of land ownership
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A diversification of crops
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The termination of the control exerted by White landowners over former slaves
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A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the late nineteenth-century South, the switch to sharecropping and the crop lien system resulted in a cycle of debt and misery for tenant farmers. The correct response is option (C).
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: -Abuses in the crop lien system reduced many tenant farmers to a state of economic slavery, as their debts to landlords and merchants carried over from one year to the next. Many landowners joined the ranks of farm tenants when excessive indebtedness led to foreclosure.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.