RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
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Question
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How was slavery replaced by sharecropping?
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Sharecropping is completely different from slavery.
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African Americans still worked on plantations for no income.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Mechanization and migration put an end to the sharecropping system by the 1960s, though some forms of tenant farming still exist in the 21st century.
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: -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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