How did sharecropping affect the South after the Civil War?

With the southern economy in disarray after the abolition of slavery and the devastation of the Civil War, sharecropping enabled white landowners to reestablish a labor force, while giving freed Black people a means of subsistence. 1 What were the effects of sharecropping? 2 How did sharecropping affect farming in the South? 3

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How did the Civil War test and transform the American constitutional system?

The war raised several constitutional issues: the right of states to secede from the union, the president’s powers in wartime, the balance between individual rights and national security, and the constitutional status of slavery in the United States. 1 What were the Civil War amendments to the Constitution was their impact immediately felt?

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