Question

What was the main effect of the systems of sharecropping and debt peonage put in place in the South after the Civil War?

Answer 1

The main effect of the systems of sharecropping and debt peonage put in place in the South after the Civil War was that the African American people were prevented from leaving the very plantations where they had worked as slaves. The African Americans were bound to the land since they were buying the land through sharecropping.