1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
yuradex [85]
3 years ago
11

How effective were crop liens in assisting farmers’ economic recovery?

History
1 answer:
faust18 [17]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

The crop-lien system was another way Southerners tried to boost their economy.  In exchange for seeds, food, tools, and other necessities, farmers would provide a "lien" on their crops from the next harvest.  

However, many merchants that provided for this system saw that they were the only ones who could do so.  In the absence of competition, these merchants could charge ridiculously high interest rates, as high as 50%.  If a farmer had a bad couple of years with his harvest, he would be trapped in a cycle of debt from which he could never escape.  This was a common result.  

This system also lead to an increased production of cash crops like cotton.  After a few years of harvesting cotton, the soil would be depleted of nutrients, and nothing else could be grown on that land.  While the farmers could possibly pay off their debt, they would be left with barren soil that could grow nothing else.

Sharecropping was a similar farming system found in the South after the Civil War.  Southern planters would rent out land to former slaves and poor whites, in exchange for labor on the land they were given.  These planters would charge a credit on the family's next harvest for the necessities of life as well as living on the land.  This system was often abused by the planters; they charged high interest rates, and often controlled the lives of the people who worked for them.  It wasn't a very good system, but it allowed Southern blacks and poor whites to make a modest living, even more so than the crop-lien system.

You might be interested in
Name 2 ways the Underground Railroad helped runaway slaves.<br> HELP ME ASAPPP
kondor19780726 [428]

Answer:

it hid the slaves while they were going to the north and it gave them ways to fool slave hunters

Explanation:

6 0
2 years ago
Read 2 more answers
As the United States entered World War I what was significant about the fact that the two largest immigrant groups in the United
NISA [10]
C) members of both groups were prohibited from serving in the military because of their questionable loyalties
5 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Which element of the U.S government most reflects the constituonal principle of rule of law
kirza4 [7]

Answer:

The Constitution allows presidents to be removed from office if they are convicted of a crime.

4 0
3 years ago
PLEASE ANSWER QUICKLY I HAVE VERY LITTLE AMOUNT OF TIME
Grace [21]
A. It called for desegregation of all schools

Brown won the case
4 0
3 years ago
What was the purpose the Judiciary Act? A) It established the right of Congress to appoint judges. B) It established the trial b
Leya [2.2K]
D. The Judiciary Act of 1789, officially titled "An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States," was signed into law by President George Washington on September 24, 1789. Article III of the Constitution established a Supreme Court, but left to Congress the authority to create lower federal courts as needed. D is the answer
7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Other questions:
  • What Confucianism structure is important
    12·1 answer
  • Pls help i don’t understand this I’m in 5th grade btw
    8·1 answer
  • How was the policy created by the Americans with Disabilities Act changed after it was implemented?
    11·2 answers
  • Public opinion polls show that _____ Americans agrees that benefits provided by Medicare and Social Security ought to be trimmed
    15·2 answers
  • 1. With what does the Declaration of Independence begin?
    13·1 answer
  • How did World War 1 and the Treaty of Versailles affect economies around the world?
    6·2 answers
  • A key issue that sparked the colonists to declare their independence from England was?​
    10·1 answer
  • Please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    12·1 answer
  • What are major characteristics of the Roman Empire? Laws? Religion?
    9·1 answer
  • Demand is the __________ and __________ to buy a given good or service. A. passion . . . desire B. willingness . . . ability C.
    5·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!