HIS-2204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sharecropping, Cash Crop
Document Summary
Out of the ashes, industrialization and a return to a new/old racial order. Switch from agriculture (cotton) to industry (textile mall) Dependence on one crop; farmers gather to sell cotton. Sharecropping rises- both former slaves and poor whites. In exchange for loans of land, supplies, cabin, sharecroppers raise a cash crop and give - to the owner. Refuse to give sharecropper full allotment of crops. African american buffalo soldiers bring families west. Some black towns are created in the west. Great plains transformed- 1800: buffalo population 30 million. Wolf population drops from 2 million to 200,000. Native americans pushed to brink- deteriorating food source.
