Masses of former slaves were needed to work for landowners, and the housing already existed.
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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
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.
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They became tenant farmers and achieved minimum autonomy through sharecropping.
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.