RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
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Question
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When landowners divide land and make people work for them and take their crops without paying them in return
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When landowners divide land to others and they share crops that are farmed
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A new form of slavery
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One big farm where everyone grows crops and keep what they grow
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Sharecropping is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop. This encouraged tenants to work to produce the biggest harvest that they could, and ensured they would remain tied to the land and unlikely to leave for other opportunities.
Detailed explanation-3: -Comment. Solution : Most of the arable land in Champaran district was divided into large estates owned by Englishmen and worked by Indian tenants. The chief commercial crop was indigo. The landlords compelled all tenants to plant 15 percent of their holdings with indigo and surrender the entire indigo harvest as rent.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.