5.3.4 Quiz Review

What kind of farming is based on an agreement between a person who owns land and tools and a person who does the work in return for a portion of the crop?

• Debt farming

• Tenant farming

• Sharecropping

How were tenant farmers different from sharecroppers?

• Tenant farmers used their own tools and animals.

• Tenant farmers knew how to grow better crops.

• Tenant farmers didn't have to live on the farm.

Which term refers to the condition of workers who could never afford to pay what they owed to a company store?

• Emancipation

• Debt peonage

• Free labor

What condition does the term debt peonage refer to?

• Helping a bank collect money that a worker earns

• Paying for things through labor but never being able to pay in full

• Serving in the U.S. Army without pay

According to the Thirteenth Amendment, who could be forced to work without pay?

• Criminals

• The military

• Religious orders

What type of laborers were forced to work against their will?

• Sharecroppers

• People from other countries

• Convict laborers

Under sharecropping agreements, what was expected from women?

• Cooking, cleaning, and tending the garden

• Helping out in the landowner's house

• Working only with the farm animals

What was happening in the South by the spring of 1865?

• Industry became more important than agriculture to the economy.

• Sharecropping and tenant farming developed to replace slavery.

• The Confederate forces were making progress against the Union.

Which statement best describes the South by the spring of 1865?

• It was the poorest region of the United States.

• Sharecropping and tenant farming became much less important.

• The region was the most prosperous section of the United States.

What was a similarity in the South between tenant farming and sharecropping?

• Tenants raised food crops.

• Sharecroppers raised cash crops.

• Farmers worked land owned by others.