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You work the land not for wages, but for a share in the profit of the harvest. If there is no profit, you receive nothing at all.
This was a popular way after the Civil War to keep slavery in practice intact in many places in the South: many white bosses saw to it that profits were negligible and/or arranged for the cost of housing and food to be practically equal to any profit share the workers might have a claim on.
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What was the purpose of sharecropping?
Sharecropping was used to keep the land owner in wealth and have workers but still with little pay.
What did NOT restrict voting rights of African American's after 1867?
sharecropping=)
What is sharecropping and debt peonage as practiced in the US and what are the effects on those involved?
Sharecropping was very popular after the end of slavery in the US. It enabled very poor farmers of any color to earn a living from land owned by someone else. Debt peonage kept workers poor by forcing them to purchase goods from company run stores. This occurred both in the coal mines and in sharecropping.
In sharecropping agreement what does the person who owns the land offer to the workers?
Tools, seeds, and supplies
What was the similarity in the south between tenant farming and sharecropping?
farmers worked land owned by others
What agricultural system trapped many southern blacks in a cycle of debt and poverty despite their hard work?
sharecropping
How were workers paid in a sharecropping system?
They were allowed to have part of the final crop, hence the name sharecropping.
A farming system that replaced the wage labor system?
sharecropping
Who was the system of sharecropping least beneficial to?
the slaves
Who benefited from the sharecropping system in Georgia?
Land Owners.
How did sharecropping replace the plantation system in the south?
Sharecropping replaced the plantation system in the South after the Civil War as a way for freed slaves and poor whites to work the land they previously worked as slaves. Under this system, laborers rented land and resources from landowners in exchange for a share of the crops produced, allowing for some autonomy but also perpetuating cycles of debt and poverty.
During Reconstruction the system of sharecropping was least beneficial to?
Landowners
What agricultural system trapped many southern blacks?
Sharecropping trapped many southern blacks after the Civil War. In this system, landless farmers, often former slaves, worked the land owned by others and in return received a small share of the crops. However, they often remained in cycles of debt and poverty due to unfair rental agreements and lack of economic independence.
Who most benefited from the sharecropping system in Georgia?
Land Owners.
Why was sharecropping created?
After the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers. The absence of cash or an independent credit system led to the creation of sharecropping. Sharecropping is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
What was the obstacle that Alice Walker had?
slavery but also the oppressive sharecropping system
Which was not a component of the southern US's sharecropping system A The only people involved in sharecropping were former slaves B It was profitable to land owners C whole families worked the land?
The only people involved in sharecropping were former slaves.
