The Civil War and Reconstruction (U6;S5)

What was the system where former slaves would work farms in exchange for a 'share' of the crop?

• Indentured Servitude

• Sharecropping

• Plantation Labor

• Tenant Farming

What did the landowner supply in the sharecropping system?

• Crops

• Money

• Land, seed, and tools

• Labor

In bad years, what would sharecroppers have to do due to very little shared crop?

• Receive government aid

• Find a new job

• Move to the North

• Take out a loan to buy supplies

What did crop liens create for the sharecroppers?

• Wealth

• Independence

• Education

• Debt

Who were disliked by most of white South Carolina and became targets of hatred and violence?

• Small farmers

• Rich plantation owners

• Northern immigrants

• Former slaves

What did sharecropping help the rich former plantation owners, but hurt small farmers that now had to compete with African Americans?

• Increase their wealth

• Create economic hardships

• Improve their living conditions

• Maintain their power

What did white farmers resent other whites that supported efforts to help former slaves?

• Missionaries

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Teachers

What did the national government not take a role in after the Civil War?

• Promoting industrialization

• Enforcing segregation laws

• Providing aid to former slaves

• Rebuilding the southern economy

What did the southern economy still rely on after the Civil War?

• Tobacco

• Cotton

• Rice

• Wheat

What did former slaves find themselves without after the Civil War?

• Jobs or homes

• Education

• Land

• Freedom