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Because some people didn't own any land, or they lost their land because they were not able to pay back the money they borrowed, they often became sharecroppers.
Emancipation caused a labor shortage on the plantations in the South. The former slaves had no money with which to purchase land. Sharecropping was the solution.
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∙ 14y agoLarge planters have no slaves to work in it so many freedmen and poor whites went to work for large planters. In return they gave them a share of crop at harvest time. wht
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∙ 15y agoso farmers can get labor
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why did freed slaves become sharecroppers
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Why did many farmers become sharecroppers?
So many freedmen and poor whites became sharecroppers.
Why did mama want the sharecroppers and the farm owners to shop in Vicksburg?
In Vicksburg there are a plethora (a lot) of stores and several of the stores treat the blacks well.
Why do you think laborers decide to become sharecroppers?
Go to Google(web).
Why did many southerns become sharecroppers after the civil war?
It looked like the obvious move up from slavery - half-owning the crops you cultivated on someone else's land.
What are 5 bad things reconstruction of the south gave us?
Reconstruction raised taxes for rebuilding. There was corruption in the government. For black people, there were few job oppourtunities. Many black people became sharecroppers. The Ku Klux Klan formed during reconstruction. And even though blacks were supposedly deemed separate but equal, that was not the case. Many whites wanted to stop blacks from voting.
Why did many farmers become sharecroppers?
So many freedmen and poor whites became sharecroppers.
What African American woman did Lithographs of Sharecroppers and Two Generations?
why did farmers become sharecroppers sharecropping offered a measure of independance
How did labor and land ownership change after the Civil War?
In the South, the governments resisted giving full ownership of land to freed slaves. Many blacks had to become sharecroppers on the plantations where they had previously been slaves.
Did sharecroppers often become wealthy?
No, they mostly all stayed poor
How did blacks get their freedom?
some became sharecroppers,some went back to africa, some went to be nannies and maids, and some became cowboys
Why did mama want the sharecroppers and the farm owners to shop in Vicksburg?
In Vicksburg there are a plethora (a lot) of stores and several of the stores treat the blacks well.
How did south prevent newly freed blacks from attaining equality?
By the BlacK codes, Ku Klux Klan a.k.a. "kkk", and sharecroppers. HOPE thiS hElPS
Did sharecroppers have a fair chance to get ahead economically?
Following emancipation,sharecropping came to be an economic arrangement that kept the status quo between blacks and whites
Why do you think laborers decide to become sharecroppers?
Go to Google(web).
What of food did the sharecroppers plant?
Sharecroppers could have planted:CottonRiceCorn
What group was least likely to prosper after the war?
The Sharecroppers farmers in the south will like not prosper after the war.
What were the advantages for the sharecroppers?
They were no longer enslaved but many became sharecroppers.
