RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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ManyAfrican Americans did not know how to farm
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Theywere forced into debt and could not leave until the debt was paid off.
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Landownersdid not want African Americans to rent their land
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Asevere drought killed most of their crops
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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: -Which of the following BEST describes sharecropping? These people had to give farm owners part of their crop for using the land.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was the main reason why many African Americans became sharecroppers after the Civil War? They had little money and few options. an economic system. Who held the power in the system of sharecropping in the South?
Detailed explanation-4: -By the early 1870s, the system known as sharecropping had come to dominate agriculture across the South. Under this system, families would rent small plots of land, or shares, to work themselves; in return, they would give a portion of their crop to the landowner at the end of the harvest season.