Sharecropping Assessment

What is the system in which farmers rented land in return for crops is called?

• segregation

• sharecropping

• tenant

• discrimination

System of farming where plantation owners would lend former slaves a place to live in exchange for farming crops

• Sharecropping
• Freedmen's Bureua
• Jim Crow Laws
• Slavery

Which of the following was not a goal of Reconstruction?

• Reunite the North and the South
• Rebuild the South
• Develop the system of sharecropping
• Determine what to do with African Americans

How was slavery and sharecropping alike?

• They had to do what the owner said to do
• They had to work for free
• They could not get an education
• They got beaten if they tried to run away

How was slavery and sharecropping different?

• They earned a lot of money

• The sharecroppers were free people

• They could decide when they wanted to stop

• They owned their own land

What is an effect of sharecropping?

• Sharecroppers suffered from violence and intimidation,

• Sharecroppers were happy.

• Sharecroppers earned a lot of money.

• Sharecroppers could easily break their contract.