Primary Sources: Sharecropping system kept freed slaves, poor whites living in poverty
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Read the passage Sharecropping system kept freed slaves, poor whites living in poverty. Then answer the questions below.
Read the passage Sharecropping system kept freed slaves, poor whites living in poverty. Then answer the questions below.
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What type of source is this?
What type of source is this?
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What quotes from the first-person accounts show the impact sharecropping had on workers? Select two correct answers.
What quotes from the first-person accounts show the impact sharecropping had on workers? Select two correct answers.
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Drag each item to the correct box based on whether it was specific to one account or a similarity of both accounts of sharecropping.
Drag each item to the correct box based on whether it was specific to one account or a similarity of both accounts of sharecropping.
- The sharecroppers lived in poverty conditions on the farms
- The author worked on the fields as a young child.
- The author's grandmother raised her own garden in order to feed her family.
- The sharecroppers were paid very little for their work and the bosses took most of the profit
- Similarities in both accounts
- Specific to one account