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| system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which sharecroppers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small share of crops |
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| an Atlanta newspaper editor, was a leader of the new south government |
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| Wrote popular short stories and novels about the mountain people of Tennessee |
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| Wrote short stories about fictional plantation life |
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| Wrote plantation stories that greed and cruelty of slaveholders. (African American) |
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| Gave most of the crop to the owner, Merchants sometimes cheated sharecroppers by charging them for items they didn't buy |
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| How did the sharecropping system limit the freedom of southern farmers? |
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Slavery
The South
Plantation life |
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| What were the most common topics of southern literature in the 1800's |
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1. Landowner provides land and tools to the sharecropper in exchange for part of the crop
2. Sharecropper buys goods from merchants on credit during the growing season
3. A poor or unfair merchant or landowner often leaves the sharecropper in debt or with little to show
(Promises sharecropper he can pay off debt next year)
4. Cycle starts again |
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| Explain the sharecropping cycle |
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