RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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Why did many freedmen enter into sharecropping agreements with their former owners?
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Most freedmen preferred to remain loyal to their former owners.
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Most freedmen were not allowed to leave their state due to fugitive slave laws.
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Most freedmen did not know that slavery had been banned.
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Most freedmen could not afford to buy their own land.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Newly freed African Americans were able to enjoy freedom for the first time but had no property nor money in order to make a living. In order to remedy the precarious economic system in the South, sharecropping was introduced.
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.
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