Reconstruction

AP US History· difficulty 4/5

Sharecropping

  • A

    Granted freedmen forty acres and a mule, distributing confiscated plantation lands to former slaves

  • B

    Eliminated farm labor in the South by replacing fieldwork with industrial wages and factory employment

  • C

    Was a religious cooperative system run by Northern missionaries to teach freedmen Christian agriculture

  • D

    Replaced slavery with a system where freedmen (and poor whites) worked land in exchange for a share of crops, often trapping them in debt

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Explanation

Tied African Americans (and poor whites) economically to landowners.

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