Sharecropping gave freed slaves a chance to earn a living and gave landowners a much needed labor force.
"Separate but equal" segregation. Nullifying the Fifteenth Amendment. Instituting sharecropping systems.
John C. Breckenridge
It is the period in the United States history immediately following the Civil War whereby the federal government set the conditions that allows the rebellious Southern states back into the Union.
The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
AS YOU CAN SEE, NOT MANY STATES JOINED THE SOUTHERN STATES. MANY JOINED THE NORTHERN STATES !
southern states
southern states after the civil war
"Separate but equal" segregation. Nullifying the Fifteenth Amendment. Instituting sharecropping systems.
The Southern states seceded from December of 1860 to April of 1861.
Sharecropping began in the US Southern States after the plantation system was destroyed by the civil war. The white southern land owners hired the newly emancipated slaves to cultivate the land and grow crops in return for a place to live, usually a dilapidated shack and half of the the crop's earnings. Of course, it never worked out this way. Sharecropping was simply a quasar form of slavery.
The Southern states in the United States wanted slaves to count in their total population for representation in Congress. This led to the Three-Fifths Compromise in the Constitution, where slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of determining representation in the House of Representatives.
Howard Kester has written: 'Revolt among the sharecroppers' -- subject(s): Cotton growing, History, Sharecroppers, Sharecropping, Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, Tenant farmers, United States, United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Slavery is illegal in the terms it was used in the 1800's in the United States. Slavery is still alive in some African countries as well as parts of Asia. The people who are engaged in sharecropping always have the choice to leave the farm and go somewhere else. Slaves don't. Modern sharecropping is also under the control of a mutually-agreed-upon contract which spells out the responsibilities and benefits to both parties which can be enforced by a court of law. Sharecropping you are not forced to live at the place you are. Slavery you are forced by your will to work. Sharecropping you have to pick stuff from other peoples land in which you are living on. You give the landowners how ever much they want. In slavery you are not allowed to keep anything.
Blacks occupation and movements was restricted
Poll taxes and literacy tests
The southern states touched by the Gulf of Mexico are Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. The ocean referred to in the context of southern states is the Atlantic Ocean, which touches states like Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina along their eastern coasts.
Sharecropper contracts were typically written in the southern United States, especially in states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia where sharecropping was prevalent after the Civil War. These contracts were often one-sided and favored the landowner, leading to continued cycles of debt and poverty for sharecroppers.