Farmers owned the land they farmed, and could keep what they earned. Sharecroppers farmed land owned by someone else, and kept part of the profits from the crop.
Tenant farmers were different from sharecroppers because they usually had their own tools and animals.
As there were no slaves and no capital for investment, landowners entered into agreements with the sharecroppers. Most sharecroppers were former slaves who stayed on the same farms or plantations as before the war.
The share croppers are the freed slaves that "rented" a white farmers land in exchange for an agreement of a percentage of the sharecroppers yearly crops. They "share" "crops", thus the name sharecroppers. By the 1900's most of these sharecroppers had land of their own. The agreed percentages varied from 5% to 95% it all depended on the person or "landlord" so-to-speak and the richness of the soil therefore determining the crops that could be grown. I'm always trying to answer the newest questions, and hope this is a good enough answer that got here fast enough! Good luck on all future endeavors.
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Tenant farmers were different from sharecroppers because they usually had their own tools and animals.
The Sharecroppers farmers in the south will like not prosper after the war.
Tenant farmers in Uruguay are known as gauchos. Such farmers will lease land for cultivation and are different from sharecroppers.
So many freedmen and poor whites became sharecroppers.
the farmers and sharecroppers
d. usually had their own tools and animals
Sharecroppers and tenant farmers made their living from cash crops.
Corn
Many small-scale farmers, especially in rural areas of the southern United States, practiced subsistence farming, which involves growing crops and raising animals for personal consumption rather than for commercial purposes. These farmers typically grew a variety of crops, such as corn, beans, and vegetables, and raised livestock like chickens and pigs to feed their families. Subsistence farming was common among lower-income families or those living in isolated areas without access to markets or resources for large-scale commercial agriculture.
why did farmers become sharecroppers sharecropping offered a measure of independance
Sharecroppers
Used their own tools and animals