Sharecropping
is a type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year.
Which term best describes a poor tenant farmer who gives a part of his crop as rent?
A few farm families were able to pay their rent in cash. However, many families were too poor for that. Instead, they paid with a share of the crop. These tenant farmers were known as
sharecroppers
.
What is a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent?
A sharecropper
is a farm tenant who pays rent with a portion (often half) of the crop he raises and who brings little to the operation besides his family labor; the landlord usually furnishing working stock, tools, fertilizer, housing, fuel, and seed, and often providing regular advice and oversight.
Both tenant farmers and sharecroppers were farmers without farms. A tenant farmer typically paid a landowner for the right to grow crops on a certain piece of property. … With few resources and little or no cash,
sharecroppers agreed to farm a certain plot of land in exchange for a share of the crops they raised
.
Sharecropping, form of
tenant farming in which the landowner furnished all the capital and most other inputs and the tenants contributed their labour
. Depending on the arrangement, the landowner may have provided the food, clothing, and medical expenses of the tenants and may have also supervised the work.
What does a tenant farmer do?
Tenant farming is
an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management
, while tenant farmers contribute their labor along with at times varying amounts of capital and management.
What was a disadvantage of tenant farming?
The chief disadvantage is
that the tenant agrees to pay a definite sum before he knows what his income will be
. The crop-sharing lease is usually workable only in strictly cash-crop farming. The tenant gets part of the returns. … The livestock-sharing lease may turn out to be a happy arrangement.
Why was tenant farming the only way for many farmers to survive?
Even after years of payments, a tenant farmer is no closer to owning the land than when he or she started.
Few families had the cash to pay for land
, so tenant farming was a way to survive. It provided a family with land on which to live and grow the food they needed.
Sharecropping was widespread in the South during Reconstruction, after the Civil War. It was a way landowners could still command labor, often by African Americans, to keep their farms profitable. It had faded in most places by the 1940s. But
not everywhere
.
Who were the tenants?
A tenant is
someone who pays rent for the place they live in
, or for land or buildings that they use. Regulations placed clear obligations on the landlord for the benefit of the tenant. Landowners frequently left the management of their estates to tenant farmers.
Workers work on the land and earn a
fixed wage from the land owner
but keep some of the crop. No money changes hands but the worker and land owner each keep a share of the crop.
What is a synonym for tenant farmer?
- crofter.
- metayer.
- peasant farmer.
- sharecropper.
Sharecropping was bad
because it increased the amount of debt that poor people owed the plantation owners
. Sharecropping was similar to slavery because after a while, the sharecroppers owed so much money to the plantation owners they had to give them all of the money they made from cotton.
The absence of cash or an independent credit system
led to the creation of sharecropping. High interest rates, unpredictable harvests, and unscrupulous landlords and merchants often kept tenant farm families severely indebted, requiring the debt to be carried over until the next year or the next.
With the southern economy in disarray after the abolition of slavery and the devastation of the Civil War, sharecropping
enabled white landowners to reestablish a labor force, while giving freed Black people a means of subsistence
.
Sharecropping developed, then, as a system that theoretically benefited
both parties
. Landowners could have access to the large labor force necessary to grow cotton, but they did not need to pay these laborers money, a major benefit in a post-war Georgia that was cash poor but land rich.
