Union And Confederacy Conflict

During the 1860s, a war was sparked between the Union and the Confederacy. From the beginning of the war in the April of 1861 to the end of the war in the May of 1865, the Union and the Confederacy fought a total of 10,500 battles over the four years of the war, with both sides spending a combined total of $5,135,200,000, causing the US debt to rise by $2,000,000. While this war was a catastrophic event overall, one of the worst problems that arose from this was in the South’s economy after President Abraham Lincoln made slavery illegal, sending the South’s economy into a flurry of panic. As a solution to solve this conflict, the southern plantation owners implemented the practice of sharecropping, a practice where African American families

This action resulted in a total of four million slaves being freed at the end of the war and a new conflict began between the African Americans and the Whites of the South. Almost immediately after they were freed from slavery, many African Americans sought to reunite with their families, from which they were separated by the slave trade, and some also began to establish their own churches and schools. African Americans also began to demand that they were given political and civil rights that were equal to those that the White men had. While African Americans found that they finally had freedom, many also found that they had no home and no jobs. On the opposite side of the spectrum, however, many large farm and plantation owners found that they had lost the majority of their labor force once slavery was outlawed. As a solution to both of these problems, the people of the South introduced the idea of

Sharecropping allowed newly freed African Americans to have a place to live and a way to make money, as well as allowing large farm and plantation owners to still make money by growing and selling cash crops. Sharecropping allowed newly freed African Americans to easily obtain a job because of the fact that there was either little or no payment that they had to give to the plantation or farm owners, instead everything was paid for by the tenants through a portion of the crop yields that were given to the plantation and farm owners. While this allowed for a temporary solution to the problem that both the plantation owners and the newly freed African Americans faced, this solution was far from