In the years following the American Civil War, the ‘New South’ turned ever more toward tenant farming, more commonly known as sharecropping. (A) Explain just what sharecropping was how it was so exploitative to the people that ended up being caught up in it. (B) Explain how the system benefited the wealthy landowners at the expense of the everyday southern sharecropper. (C) The South was by far the poorest and most backward part of the U.S. in the late-nineteenth century, what were the sources of southern poverty and how did they hold the South back?
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