RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Many Confederate prisoners were available for such work.
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The government offered landowners incentives to hire them.
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Masses of former slaves were needed to work for landowners.
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People flocked to the South for jobs following the Civil War.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tenant farming became popular in the South following the Civil War because masses of former slaves were needed to work for landowners. Tenant farmers-and sharecroppers-did not own the land on which they worked and were only allowed to keep approximately half of the crops they cultivated.
Detailed explanation-2: -a person who farms land owned by another and pays rent in cash or in a share of the crops.
Detailed explanation-3: -Meaning of tenant farmer in English. a farmer who pays rent to use land owned by someone else: Millions of farmers in the Philippines are tenant farmers and, on average, they hand over 60-70% of their harvest to their landlord as rent. Want to learn more?
Detailed explanation-4: -Sharecropping developed, then, as a system that theoretically benefited both parties. Landowners could have access to the large labor force necessary to grow cotton, but they did not need to pay these laborers money, a major benefit in a post-war Georgia that was cash poor but land rich.