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Sharecropping Quickquiz

 

 You have 60 seconds to answer true or false to the questions below:

1. The American Civil War ended in January 1900.
2. Slaves were free at the end of the American Civil War.
3. Former slaves hoped to be treated as equals.
4. The plantations were taken by the government.
5. Former slaves wanted to work for the whites for wages.
6. Former plantations were broken up into small parcels of land.
7. A sharecropper was a former slave who worked a section of a former plantation.
8. Sharecroppers had to give a percentage of their crop to the owner of the land.
9. Sharecroppers had smaller houses than they had had as slaves.
10. After sharecropping, houses were spread all over the plantation.

 

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