And in that era, that meant offices full of paperwork and accountants keeping track of what was purchased and by whom? And also in that era, in meant getting the details of camp engineering and nutritional sufficiency often meant more than good shooting.
How the Civil War ruined the old South.
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It seems Sharecropping made the South dependent on cotton in the years following the war. It froze the South in time. Its reliance on cotton after the civil war.
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But the exploitative sharecropping system also helped ensure that the South's economy became almost entirely dependent on a single crop—cotton—and an increasing number of Southerners, white and black, were reduced to tenant farming, working as laborers on land they did not own.
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Though the war ended the use of enslaved labor in the cotton industry, cotton was still the preferred crop in the South. The system of sharecropping, in which farmers did not own the land but worked it for a portion of the profits, came into widespread use. And the most common crop in the sharecropping system was cotton.
Sharecropper contract, 1867 | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Sharecropper contract, 1867 | | Immediately after the Civil War, many former slaves established subsistence farms on land that had been abandoned by fleeing white Southerners. President Andrew Johnson, a Democrat and a former slaveholder, soon restored this land to its white owners, reducing...
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But the exploitative sharecropping system also helped ensure that the South's economy became almost entirely dependent on a single crop—cotton—and an increasing number of Southerners, white and black, were reduced to tenant farming, working as laborers on land they did not own.
How King Cotton Influenced American History
"King Cotton" came to mean the reliance the American South had on its largest crop, and how that influenced major issues in American history.
Though the war ended the use of enslaved labor in the cotton industry, cotton was still the preferred crop in the South. The system of sharecropping, in which farmers did not own the land but worked it for a portion of the profits, came into widespread use. And the most common crop in the sharecropping system was cotton.