Reconstruction - Part 3

Reconstruction - Part 3

Multiple Choice

What is Sharecropping?

• A farmer who gives up part of his crop for rent.

• A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government.

• A person who legally belongs to a country and has full rights and protections from that country.

• a farmer in the North

Multiple Choice

What percentage of Texas farmers were sharecroppers?

• 10

• 20

• 30

• 40

Open Ended

Describe the sharecropping system in your own words.

Multiple Choice

Agriculture is -

• factories

• farming

Multiple Choice

In tenant farming-

• the land owner lets people live on their land in return for crops

• the land owner lets people live on their land in return for money

• the land owner lets people live on their land in return for land

• the land owner lets people live on their land in return for jobs

Multiple Choice

People saw tenant farming as a way to-

• one day own land themselves

• one day own crops

• one day own a vehicle

Multiple Choice

Why was tenant farming difficult for some individuals in the South?

• Land owners charged high rent that were difficult to pay back

• Share cropping was not working.

• Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War.

• Because it was a change to the constitution

  or law.

Multiple Choice

Farming was the main/dominant industry in the -

• South

• North

• East

• West