What was the ultimate impact of sharecropping and tenant farming on freedmen in the South after the Civil War?It allowed the maj
ority of African Americans to climb out of poverty. It kept most African Americans and poor whites in poverty and in debt to white landowners. It forced white landowners to sell off most of their land to black farmers. It allowed freedmen to buy land and gain wealth.
Americans were at first excited in help of the upset. Notwithstanding, after some time divisions of sentiment ended up clear among federalists and enemies of federalists.