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Why did share croppers have to grow cash crops like cotton instead of food crops?
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What was it like being a tentant fearmer in the 1930s?
Tenant farmers were also known as share croppers. They did all the work, raised the crop, in exchange for the right to sell part of the crop. Share cropping is now infamous because of the grinding poverty that most of those people lived in.
What was share cropping?
When you farm land belonging to someone else and share the resulting crop with the owner instead of paying rent.
What is correct share among ourselves or share between ourselves?
Share among ourselves
Determinants of share price?
Determinant of share price
If you cant have it you want to share it. If you share it you don't have it. what is it?
A cookie
Do share croppers still exist?
is share cropping legal in the US
Who were share croppers?
Former slaves that had no land or food to provide for themselves or their family. They started working for the whits and planted crops. They only had enough food to feed themselves and there families. The whites go majority of the crops
Why was it really disastrous for the share croppers from 1929 to 1939?
because they were dogs
Who famed land in return for a portion in the value of the crop?
share croppers
What is different between slavery and sharecropping?
Slavery involved ownership of individuals as property, with no control over their own labor and no compensation. Sharecropping, on the other hand, involved individuals working land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops produced, allowing some degree of autonomy but often leading to debt and dependency. Sharecroppers were considered free individuals, unlike slaves.
Why did many farmers become share croppers?
They could not afford to buy land, but all they knew was farming. A large number of freed slaves in the South became share croppers, as they could not find other work.
Who were the share croppers?
Sharecroppers were farmers, often African Americans in the Southern United States after the Civil War, who worked on land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops they produced. They were often in a cycle of poverty and debt due to unfair contracts and exploitative practices by landowners.
Which group had the highest unemployment rate in the early 1930s?
African Americans share croppers
What roles did the sharecroppers play?
Basicly slaves they had to work for a white landowner and had to barrow and pay for tools and after farming crops the landowner would sale them and depending on their contract theAfrican Americansor poor whiteswould get so much money. The share croppers couldn't sell their left over supplies.
What happened to share croppers when they worked in the same land year after year?
Most remained in debt to the land owners and were unable to move away.
Who were the sharecroppers after civil 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.
How did the sharecropping system affect the African Americans' efforts to achieve economic independence?
The land owners had the discretion to deduct from our annual earnings for the cotton we harvested what they thought was "fair" for: use of equipment, barns, tractors, trailers, cotton scales, etc. They also often owned the country store where the share croppers cashed their Social Security checks, and deducted a fee for cashing the check, or allowed the share cropper to build up large debts, that ate up any profit by the end of the year.
