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Answer this question… what do the tenant farmers hope to do with the money they make selling their possessions?
Invariably they were forced to abandon those possessions and lost them - making them even more poor than they were before.
Corn
Tenant farmers used their own tools and animals
Tenant farmers grew a large variety of crops.
Tenant farmers used their own tools and animals
Sharecroppers and tenant farmers made their living from cash crops.
Sharecroppers and tenant farmers made their living from cash crops.
Southern Tenant Farmers Union was created in 1934.
cash crops
cash crops
Not in the US, at least. With the shrinking number of farmers and more efficient farming methods, many farmers (if not most) farm at least some land that they do not live on but they are the tenant.