Sharecropping Civil War

Take a DEEP BREATH!!! In my research paper I will be taking you back in the past of our united states, to be more specific the “civil war”. I will be hitting on points such as economic, social, and political problems. First, a social event that was a problem was education plans (“Civil War Trust.” : Saving America’s Civil War Battlefields. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Dec. 2012). Second, an economic event like sharecropping (“RECONSTRUCTION: SHARECROPPING.” RECONSTRUCTION---SHARECROPPING. N.P., N.D. WEB. 13 DEC, 2012). Last I will be stating a political problem, women rights (Katz, William Loren. A History of Multicultural America. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1993. Print). First, education was a social change during the civil war. Education…show more content…
Sharecropping, an economic system whereas a land owner "leases" property to a farmer in return for a share of profits from his crops, usually 1/3. Since sharecrop farmers were required to buy seed, tools, and such, as well as work the crop, there was usually very little left in the way of incomes at the end of the year. Sharecropping basically replaced the plantations system destroyed by the civil war. The farmer planters, even those actively engaged in rebellion for the most part still had their land, but no slaves or money to pay wages. The farmer slaves on the other hand did not have jobs or land. Since they had been denied education, they had few options. Sharecropping developed because the former slaves and planters needed each other. White authorities attempted to reimpose a thinly disguised form of slavery. The result of slavery was that sharecropping emerged as a kind of compromise. The land owners began to divide the plantations into 20- to 50 acre…show more content…
This was an example of a political problem. Women during the civil war didn’t really have any rights to start off. Women had barely served as nurses for the wounded and on the home front. The 14th amendment which protested the civil rights of African Americans set black women back. Subsequently it was aiming at “male black citizens”. The 14th amendment stated “all persons born or naturalized in the United States," which involved former slaves recently freed. Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho became the first to adopt women’s suffrage in the 17th century. In 1870, Utah’s Mormons adopted women’s suffrage to prove that Mormons women were not opposed. If your trying to figure out what “women suffrage is; it is basically the right of women to vote; exercise of the contract by women. Esther Morris was the first woman to serve as justice of the peace in Wyoming, which helped guide it toward women suffrage. One huge figure during this movement was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women’s right activist. She held the famous Seneca Falls convention in July 1848. During the meeting there were other problems but Stanton was mainly focused on women