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Some, unable to pay their mortgages, lost their plantations when the banks foreclosed. Some sold out to Northern carpetbaggers. Those who were able to keep their land realized that they could not sustain cotton production on an industrial scale without the slave labor force, because they could not afford to pay living wages. They developed a system called sharecropping by which the field hands would receive a portion of the crop in exchange for their labor. The sharecroppers lived on the plantation in their own shacks. In practice, the system was little better than slavery. the sharecropper had to pay their rent out of their share of the crop, with very littl left over for anything beyond subsistence.
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Why did the plantations suffer after the Civil War?
Plantations suffered at the civil war because the fighting took place their and destroyed the plantation.
What happened to Virginia cities after the Civil War and Reconstruction?
What happened to Virginia's cities after the Civil War and Reconstruction?
When did Caesar's Civil War happen?
Caesar's Civil War happened in -45-03.
What systems replaced the plantation system in th south?
Sharecropping and Tenant farming were two systems that replaced the plantation system in the south after the Civil War.
What happened to Texas right after the Civil War?
your mom happened
Prior to the civil war which group had the most political power in the south?
The plantation owners
What did woman do during the civil war?
they were the business owners,plantation owners,they had to work on the battlefields as nurses,they had to cook&clean and they were regular hosewives
South in the beginning of the Civil War?
Simply an agricultural region of the US; with wealthy land owners (primarily tobacco/cotton plantation owners).
Were southern plantation owners upper or lower class?
they where very rich until the 13th amendment was signed (after the civil war) and southern plantation owners had to let their slaves free and did not have any help working on their plantations.
After the Civil War and Lincolns assassination what did President Johnson decide to do with the abandoned plantation lands in the South?
Give them back to their owners.
What was the southern class structure before the civil war?
Up top it was the wealthy land/ plantation owners that had acres of land. Then the small land owners After that the peasents Then the slaves
What was daily life like for a plantation owners' wife in the South prior to the Civil War?
She watched the house and took care of the family
What 3 major groups of people faced hardships and fears in the civil war?
poor white southerners, plantation owners, and black southerners
How did the results of the election of 1848 lead to the civil war?
southern plantation owners were angry because president Abraham Lincoln had promised to abolish slavery
What After the Civil War the agriculture of the South developed around what because plantation owners did not have cash to pay workers.?
Ok Liberty Online cheater LOL
What happened to a plantation if the plantation owner was killed in the Civil War?
The civil war affected the plantation owners in a major way. They could no longer use unpaid slave labor to plant and harvest their crops. They lost a great deal of their wealth since they could no longer afford to bring crops to market. The plantation owners wife now had to be responsible for cooking, child-rearing, and cleaning that was previously done by the slaves. They were mostly unprepared for the job.
What freed slaves in areas controlled by the confederacy?
Civil war Union generals and there troops went to go kill any plantation owners in the area with slaves.
