As there were no slaves and no capital for investment, landowners entered into agreements with the sharecroppers. Most sharecroppers were former slaves who stayed on the same farms or plantations as before the war.
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Farmers formed cooperatives after the Civil war, to give producers higher influence in buying their produce, and market their products.
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The share croppers are the freed slaves that "rented" a white farmers land in exchange for an agreement of a percentage of the sharecroppers yearly crops. They "share" "crops", thus the name sharecroppers. By the 1900's most of these sharecroppers had land of their own. The agreed percentages varied from 5% to 95% it all depended on the person or "landlord" so-to-speak and the richness of the soil therefore determining the crops that could be grown. I'm always trying to answer the newest questions, and hope this is a good enough answer that got here fast enough! Good luck on all future endeavors.
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Because they had to pay people to harvest it