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Tenant farming encouraged the rise of a new class of wealthy?
merchants
Tenant farming created a new class of wealthy southerners called?
Tenant farming created a new class of wealthy southerners called merchants. Tenant farmers paid a landowner rent for farmland and a house, The tenant farmer owned the crops, and at harvest time would sell the crops for income to pay rent. However, due to poor crops and various other issues, tenant farmers often borrowed on credit to make the rent. It became a vicious cycle for the tenant farmer, but advantageous for the merchants.
When did tenant farming start?
Tenant Farming also called Sharecropping came about in 1865 in the United States.
What is the definition of tenant farming?
Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management
How did tenant farmers pay their rent in ancient china?
A tenant farmer
What was the kind of farming that developed in the South at the end of the Civil War?
tenant farming
tenant farming?
system of farming in which a person rents land to farm from a planter
What is Another name for tenant farming?
sharecropping
By what term is sharecropping also known?
tenant farming
What was a similarly in the south between tenant farming and Sharecropping?
Both tenant farming and sharecropping were agricultural systems prevalent in the southern United States after the Civil War. Both involved renting land to work and paying a portion of the harvest as a form of payment to the landowner. However, in sharecropping, the tenant typically received a share of the harvest, while in tenant farming, the tenant paid rent in cash or crops.
What did poor southern whites do as the land became exhausted from farming?
Poor southern whites often moved to search for new land once the soil became exhausted. Some turned to subsistence farming, sharecropping, or tenant farming to make a living. Others migrated to cities in search of industrial work.
What was main reason large plantations developed in south during the colonial period?
British law discouraged tenant farming
