Sharecropping and Slavery

Which of the following is TRUE about sharecropping

• Sharecropping favored the freeedmen.

• Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping

• Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty

• Many state governments offered loan for sharecropping farmers.

What replaced slavery in the south after the Civil War?

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecropping

• Slavery

As sharecroppers former slaves were given a place to live, seeds, and equipment in order produce crops. The land owner received a ________ of all crops grown

• share or portion

• ownership

• debt

• none of the above

A system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in return the farmers gave the landowners a share of the crop...

• Sharecropping

• Segregation

• Border States

• Jim Crow's Law

How did the sharecropping system perpetuate economic inequality in the post-Reconstruction South?

• It allowed African Americans to accumulate wealth.

• It kept African American farmers in a cycle of debt and dependency on landowners.

• It provided equal opportunities for all farmers.

• It eliminated the need for labor contracts.

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking

- Took the place of the plantation system in the south following Reconstruction

- Cycle that left former slaves in poverty

- Farm worker who works someone else’s land and pays for its use by giving the landowner a share of the crops grown.

• Sharecropping

• Cash Cropping

What was the primary purpose of the sharecropping system?

• To provide education to freed slaves

• To redistribute land to former slaves

• To allow freed slaves to rent land and pay with a portion of their crops

• To establish industrial jobs for freed slaves

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DOK Level 1: Recall

With the end of the Civil War, the South was left in​ (a)   and suffered a serious shortage of hard currency. Many of the major land owners were unable to pay their labor forces, so a system was created to help farm (b)   .​ (c)   was a system where farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed and they were required to provide the land owner with a share of the crop.​​ (d)   was a system where farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property were required to provide the landowner with a share of the crop, but they owned their own farming equipment. Both systems allowed landowners ways to keep their employees indebted to them in hopes of preventing them from gaining the ability to purchase their own ​ (e)   .

• debt

• cotton

• Sharecropping

• Tenant farming

• land

• supplies

• seed

• equipment

• Sharefarming

• Tenant Cropping

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SS8H6

After the Civil War, many former slave owners agreed to give former slaves supplies and a place to live. For rent, the former slave had to give the owner part of his crop plus extra money. This was known as 

• Crop Rotation

• Farming Friends

• Sharecropping

• Slavery Shift

After the Civil War, people didn't have a lot of options to work, so a lot of people began ____________, which is when people would rent land from a landowner in exchange for paying them 50% profits. This caused a lot of people to go into debt slavery, a never ending cycle of owing money and being forced to work.