Sharecropping

Question 1

Which statement best compares slavery and sharecropping?

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Both systems tied laborers to the land, keeping laborers economically dependent on landowners.

Question 2

What long-term effect did sharecropping have on the economy of the South?

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It kept the region dependent on agriculture, especially cotton cultivation.

Question 3

During Reconstruction, Southerners who owned plantations farmed their fields

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by renting plots of land to farmers.

Question 4

Even though sharecroppers rented their land, they could usually

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pass down farming rights to their sons.

Question 5

How widespread was sharecropping in the South in the late 1800s?

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Sharecropping varied from state to state, but it was common in many places.

Question 6

Which statement most accurately describes the economic impact of sharecropping?

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Sharecropping tied so many laborers to farming that it delayed industrial growth in the South.

Question 7

What negative impact did sharecropping have on the lives of African American people?

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The system kept farmers in poverty.

Question 8

After the Civil War ended, the system of sharecropping

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gave White landowners economic dominance in the Southern economy.

Question 9

After slavery was abolished, most White Southern planters

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needed a new system of labor.

Question 10

Sharecropping could best be described as

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an economic system.

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