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What were the main cash crops in the south during reconstruction?
During Reconstruction, a new system of farming was developed. The neo-peonage method of using tenant farmers on farms came to be known as sharecropping. The economic devastation of the south led to most of the land being used for cash crops rather than subsistence farming. Cash crops were the traditional antebellum ones like tobacco, cotton, sugar and rice.
Why were many African Americans farmers caught in a condition of debt peonage?
They did not have enough money to pay for supplies from the company store.
What was the kind of farming that developed in the South at the end of the Civil War?
tenant farming
What best describes the economic difference between the north and south just prior to the civil war?
Transportation systems were more developed in the North than in the South.
Why wasn't the south wealthy during the civil war?
The South was dependent on the North and other outside resources. It was more decentralized and was not as developed as the North, which could sustain itself.
What best describes debt peonage?
Debt peonage (wage slavery) is when an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work.
What term refers to the condition of workers who could never afford to pay what they owed to a company store?
Debt peonage
Which of these is similar to the system of debt peonage?
The system of sharecropping is similar to debt peonage. In sharecropping, farmers work the land in exchange for a share of the crops, often leading to cycles of debt and dependency similar to debt peonage. Both systems exploited individuals by trapping them in cycles of debt and labor.
What was the main effect of the systems of sharecropping and debt peonage put in place in the South after the Civil War?
Sharecropping developed after the slavery system had been abolished. In exchange for labor, the worker received a portion of the crop to sell and use as he wished. In reality, it was another form of slavery. The landlord deducted the rent from the portion of the crop due to the laborer, which very often left the worker with a bare subsistence living.
In what region did debt peonage exist?
Debt Peonage was practiced in Peru from the 16th century until 1950. This was the practice wherein workers has to meet a required working time in a week and that they are not allowed to go beyond the land assigned to them.
What was the main effect of the system of debt peonage that emerged in the South during the late 19th century?
African Americans labored in a system that was nearly the same as slavery.
What is the debt peonage?
Having to stay at one job just to pay what you owe
What region did debt peonage exist?
Debt Peonage was practiced in Peru from the 16th century until 1950. This was the practice wherein workers has to meet a required working time in a week and that they are not allowed to go beyond the land assigned to them.
How did the peonage system affect latin America?
The peonage system is a system of involuntary servitude used to pay off debt to creditors. The peonage system affected Latin America by encouraging slavery in Latin American countries.
What must a person do if they were in a situation of debt peonage?
Pay off debts through labor
What is debt peonage?
A system of involuntary servitude n which the laborer is forced to work off a debt. This was mostly used on Mexicans and African Americans.
Describe the system of peonage in Latin America?
In peonage, free workers were not much better off than the slaves. Since wages were low and prices were high, workers were in debt. Their debt accumulated and passed from one generation to the next.
