RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
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using seasonal migrant workers to harvest and plant crops
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hiring immigrants who had been farmers in their home countries
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selling parts of their lands to investors from northern states
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entering into sharecropping agreements with former slaves
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Detailed explanation-1: -After the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers. The absence of cash or an independent credit system led to the creation of sharecropping.
Detailed explanation-2: -American sharecroppers worked a section of the plantation independently, usually growing cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar, and other cash crops, and receiving half of the parcel’s output. Sharecroppers also often received their farming tools and all other goods from the landowner they were contracted with.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.