Sharecropping

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