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AP US History
Unit 6 – Industrialization and the Gilded Age, 1865–1898
Topic 6.4
How might history differ if sharecropping was banned post-Civil War?
Northern industries would be overwhelmed with a sudden influx of unskilled labor from the South.
Southern agriculture would completely collapse without the labor force provided by former slaves.
More former Confederate land owners might have recovered their lost wealth quicker.
Increased urban migration amongst freed slaves searching for work may occur sooner than it actually did.
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