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Masses of former slaves were needed to work for landowners, and the housing already existed.

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Q: Why did tenant farming become a dominant form of agriculture in the 1870s?
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What theme is most closely related to this quote from 1938 Tenant to Taxpayer?

The full question and quotation is: What theme is most closely related to this quote from 1938 Tenant to Taxpayer This government relief has simply destroyed the morale of farm labor-has made the laboring class lazy and shiftless-has killed their will to do something for themselves. In fact, farming is not as satisfactory as it used to be all the way around and all because of government interference. - From Tenant to Taxpayer, written December 27, 1938; Name of Person Interviewed Mr. Wilbur White (white, farm owner). Full text is online at The Library of Congress. Theme: culture


What is a tendent farmer?

I think you mean 'Tenant Farmer'. A tenant farmer is a farmer who does not own the land that he/she cultivates. Their rent is usually a fixed percentage of the harvest each year.


Why might the views of tenant farmers and landowners on the question of who should get AAA reimbursement be different?

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By 1880 nearly three quarters of black southerners became what?

They became tenant farmers and achieved minimum autonomy through sharecropping.


What are some disadvantages of feudalism?

Feudalism provided a system in which authority was distributed through a hierarchy in which local military could respond to immediate threats without reference to the national government. It provided an army for the national government without the need for a large standing army. It distributed responsibilities of government in very much the same way. And so it provided a solution for government at a time when strong central government was not possible, but the demands of local problems were very real. For more information, please use the link below.

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How did the enclosure movement change agriculture in England-?

It gave landowners new agricultural methods and Large landowners forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or give up farming and move to the cities.


What is difference between sharecropping and tenant farming?

Sharecropping is a system of agriculture or agricultural production in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land. A tenant farmer is one who resides on and farms land owned by a landlord.


When did tenant farming start?

Tenant Farming also called Sharecropping came about in 1865 in the United States.


What is different between sharecropping and farming?

Sharecropping is a system of agriculture or agricultural production in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land. A tenant farmer is one who resides on and farms land owned by a landlord.


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


tenant farming?

system of farming in which a person rents land to farm from a planter


What was the kind of farming that developed in the South at the end of the Civil War?

tenant farming


How did tenant farmers pay their rent in ancient china?

A tenant farmer


Who became wealthy from tenant farming?

Merchants


What is Another name for tenant farming?

sharecropping


By what term is sharecropping also known?

tenant farming


What was main reason large plantations developed in south during the colonial period?

British law discouraged tenant farming