Sharecropping and Slavery

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

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

Most slaves became what after the Civil War

• Sharecroppers
• Lawyers 
• Welders

Why couldn't sharecroppers leave?

• No horse

• They could if they wanted

• could be arrested for owing debt to landowner

• Had to stay and farm ...and bring in the harvest

Which of the following is true about sharecropping 

• Most southern states outlawed sharecropping
• 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.

This amendment abolished slavery. 

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

This amendment gave all men the right to vote, regardless of race. 

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

The _________________ was a terrorist organization that used violence and intimidation to deprive African Americans of their rights.

• White Bullies
• Ku Klux Klan
• Radical Republicans
• Angry Aryans