Question

question 1-4
the chart below lists economic problems faced by southerners at the end of the civil war.

• former plantation owners lacked workers.
• freed slaves lacked land, livestock, tools and money.

which system developed during the reconstruction era to resolve these problems?

• southern landowners sold former plantations to northern investors.
• freedmen migrated to the north to obtain free land, livestock, and tools.
• southern banks made loans to freedmen who bought land from their former masters.
• freedmen often became sharecroppers or tenant farmers on the properties of their former masters.

Explanation:

Para resolver los problemas económicos tras la Guerra Civil (propietarios de plantaciones sin trabajadores, esclavos liberados sin recursos), el sistema de compartición de cosechas (sharecropping) o arrendamiento a tenant farmers se desarrolló. Los esclavos liberados trabajaban las tierras de sus ex amos a cambio de una parte de la cosecha (o pago), resolviendo la falta de trabajadores de los terratenientes y la falta de tierras/recursos de los freedmen. Analicemos las opciones:

• "Southern landowners sold..." no resuelve la falta de trabajadores de los terratenientes.
• "Freedmen migrated to the North..." no resolvió el problema en masa (pocos obtuvieron tierras gratuitas).
• "Southern banks made loans..." no era común; la mayoría de freedmen no tenían garantía para préstamos.
• "Freedmen often became sharecroppers..." coincide: los ex esclavos trabajan las tierras de ex amos (resolviendo la escasez de mano de obra), y reciben recursos (o parte de la cosecha) para vivir, resolviendo su falta de tierras/herramientas.

Answer:

D. Freedmen often became sharecroppers or tenant farmers on the properties of their former masters.