Author Question: Describe the economic fate of freed people during and immediately following Reconstruction. What ... (Read 51 times)

Melani1276 · **on:** Sep 11, 2019

Question 1

Independence in Southeast Asia did not lead to material prosperity because

a. the West refused to provide financial or technological assistance.
b. Muslim and Buddhist religious beliefs and practices were by nature anti-materialistic.
c. of a lack of trained leaders, educational resources, and capital.
d. the vast majority of the population desired only to remain on their small farms.
e. the Cold War redirected resources into unproductive channels.

Question 2

Describe the economic fate of freed people during and immediately following Reconstruction.

What will be an ideal response?

akudia · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 11, 2019

Answer 1

c

Answer 2

Students should recognize that while freedom meant autonomy, it eventually would translate into poverty. Because the federal government failed to distribute land to the freed people, blacks compromised with landowners. Rather than being subjected to oversight in a wage-labor arrangement, which for many freed people bore a resemblance to slavery, freed people opted for sharecropping, which provided them with autonomy. Good students will connect this concept to the freed people's desire to come and go and to form black institutions (like churches) as indicative of this desire for self-control. Finally, students will point out that sharecropping relegated African Americans to a system that trapped them in a vicious cycle of debt and resulting poverty.