Primary Sources: Sharecropping system kept freed slaves, poor whites living in poverty

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Primary Sources: Sharecropping system kept freed slaves, poor whites living in poverty

Last updated 11 months ago

3 questions

Note from the author:

Read the passage Sharecropping system kept freed slaves, poor whites living in poverty. Then answer the questions below.

Instructions

Read the passage Sharecropping system kept freed slaves, poor whites living in poverty. Then answer the questions below.

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Question 1

What type of source is this?

a public speech

a personal diary entry 

a newspaper article 

a private letter

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Question 2

What quotes from the first-person accounts show the impact sharecropping had on workers? Select two correct answers.

"After we planted the cotton, it was time to plant the corn. Everything had a certain season and it had to be done just so to have a good harvest."

"She had a Singer sewing machine she used to make our clothes and darn my grandfather's."

"Half of everything we made went to the boss. He took it, and he gave us what he called half."

"I went to school through the eighth grade, but the farm owner didn't want me to go to high school. He said he didn't need any educated Negros to pick his cotton."

It appeared to us that my grandparents were always working.

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Question 3

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 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
The author worked on the fields as a young child.
The sharecroppers lived in poverty conditions on the farms

Similarities in both accounts
Specific to one account

Question 1

What type of source is this?

a public speech

a personal diary entry 

a newspaper article 

a private letter

Question 2

What quotes from the first-person accounts show the impact sharecropping had on workers? Select two correct answers.

"After we planted the cotton, it was time to plant the corn. Everything had a certain season and it had to be done just so to have a good harvest."

"She had a Singer sewing machine she used to make our clothes and darn my grandfather's."

"Half of everything we made went to the boss. He took it, and he gave us what he called half."

"I went to school through the eighth grade, but the farm owner didn't want me to go to high school. He said he didn't need any educated Negros to pick his cotton."

It appeared to us that my grandparents were always working.

Question 3

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 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
The author worked on the fields as a young child.
The sharecroppers lived in poverty conditions on the farms

Similarities in both accounts
Specific to one account