Crops
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Backround
Definition
100
Cotton
What is the main crop that was grown on land?
100
YES for poor!
Were the people in America rich or poor after the Civil War?
100
Tractor
What is a tool that is used in collecting crops?
100
A
What else did the farmers try to control? a)life off of the land b)How they spent thier money
100
An agricultral system
What is sharecropping?
200
The sharecroppers recived 75% of thier work
What did the sharecroppers recive-75% or 25%?
200
Very Bad!
What were the conditions they lived in?
200
Technology (Tractors,Factories,etc.)
What broght sharecropping to an end?
200
Shacks
What did the sharecroppers live in?
200
Because they didn't want the sharecroppers to save up and eventually move away
Why didn't the landowners let the slaves save up?
300
Corn
What else did they grow?
300
True
True or False: After The American Civil War slavery was broght to an end?
300
Mainly in the south
Where did sharecropping take place?
300
Didn't matter as long as you were working (trick question)
How old did you have to be to be a sharecropper?
300
Sign a contract
What did the people who wanted/needed to be a sharecropper have to do before they became a sharecropper?
400
Inflation
When more and more cotton came in what is that called when the price of it goes down?
400
President Andrew Jackson
Who thoght of the idea of sharecropping?
400
To the northern factories
Where did msot of the sharecroppers go?
400
Slavery
What did sharecropping end up being like?
400
A would be answer
Why would you become a sharecropper? a)Lost land/No money b)Nothing to do c)Just needed a job
500
Until the beggining of the twentieth centry
How long did sharecropping last?
500
President Andrew Jackson
Who was the prsident when the Civil war ended?
500
D
Which of these counties were at the highest rate of sharecropping? a)Houston b)Dooly c)Burke d)All of the above
500
D
What would the landownerss pay them in: a)food b)money c)clothes d)all of the above
500
Freedmen’s Bureau
What was used to try and negotiate two people to agree on working on the same land(usually a landowner and a former slave)?
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