USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Many former slaves, now called freedmen, having no land or other assets of their own, needed to work to support their families. A sharecropping system centered on cotton, a major cash crop, developed as a result. Large plantations were subdivided into plots that could be worked by sharecroppers.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Sharecropping is a type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year.

Detailed explanation-4: -The sharecropping system required the tenants to grow indigo, a major commercial crop, on 15 percent of their landholdings. Every year, the grown indigo harvest was given as rent to the landlord. However, on hearing about the German synthetic indigo, the British decided to draw a new agreement with peasants.

Detailed explanation-5: -In tenant farming, tenants live in the same land and engage in agricultural practices for a given period, and finally get their payments as money, fixed amount of crop, or in combination. In the case of sharecropping, tenant receives his portion as a share. He has to give a share to the landowner, which is pre decided.