they did not have enough money to keep thefarm growing because the economy was based on the factories
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So many freedmen and poor whites became sharecroppers.
The land owners took advantage of the sharecroppers leaving them poor and in need.
After the US Civil War, many poor white farmers became sharecroppers, farming land owned by the wealthy planters in exchange for a percentage of their crop's yield.
The sharecroppers were able to purchase goods on credit for a mortgage or lien on the farmer's crop. The merchant would advance supplies such as food, clothes, or tools in return.
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