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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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Large 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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so 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.


What African American woman did Lithographs of Sharecroppers and Two Generations?

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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.


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No, they mostly all stayed poor


How did blacks get their freedom?

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Why did mama want the sharecroppers and the farm owners to shop in Vicksburg?

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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.