What were the problems with sharecropping? – Farmers and landowners had opposite goals (farmers wanted to grow food but landowners wanted cash crops). – Farmers were caught in a cycle of debt.

Why did sharecroppers become locked in a cycle of poverty? They became locked in a cycle of poverty because the sharecropping system kept many farmers poor and they were unable to earn more money or to buy land or their own. They couldn’t get ahead.

They were to grow crops on their land, and give a share of them to their employer. In return, the employer gave them a small pay. Because of the black codes and the tiny pay that they received, they couldn’t live on their own, so it created a cycle of poverty.

Which of the following was a key problem with the sharecropping system? Landowners could lie about expenses to keep sharecroppers in debt. had more control over their crops and supplies than was true in sharecropping. ten percent of a state’s voters take a loyalty oath to the Union.

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system? Agricultural workers organized labor unions. Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt. Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves.

What impact did the sharecropping system and the crop-lien system have on the south? Prevent African Americans from achieving social, political, and economic equality with southern whites, hold meetings, travel without permits, own guns,or attend school with whites.

What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War? It kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent. It brought investment capital to the South. It encouraged Northerners to migrate south.

How did the system of sharecropping affect landowners and laborers in the South? The system often trapped laborers in a cycle of debt and dependence while allowing landowners to profit from laborers’ hard work. limit the freedoms and rights of African Americans.

Landowners and sharecroppers borrowed (at high interest rates) against the future harvest. Lenders insisted that they produce cash crops like cotton. The system made landowners and sharecroppers dependent on local merchants, and it prevented the development of diversified farming in the South.

During Reconstruction, many small white farmers, thrown into poverty by the war, entered into cotton production, a major change from prewar days when they concentrated on growing food for their own families. Out of the conflicts on the plantations, new systems of labor slowly emerged to take the place of slavery.

Gandhi say the battle of champaran is won because the movement of nill farmer had stopped. Gandhi was ready to go to jail fighting against the injustice to the sharecroppers. This support made Gandhi extremely happy and confident. This confidence led him to exclaim that the battle of Champaran was won.

The main theme of the chapter Indigo by Louis Fischer is how effective leadership can overcome any problem as shown by Mahatma Gandhi in securing justice for the oppressed in Champaran through convincing arguments and negotiation.

Indigo is about how Mahatma Gandhi struggled for the underprivileged peasants of Champaran. They were the sharecroppers with the British planters. The peasants use to live a wretched life and were under an agreement to grow Indigo. As Bihar has the landlord system back then, it worsened their condition.

The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was the first Satyagraha movement led by Gandhi in India and is considered a historically important revolt in the Indian Independence Movement. It was a farmer’s uprising that took place in Champaran district of Bihar, India, during the British colonial period.

The episode of Champaran brought more than one change in the plight of the peasants of that district. After the successful refund of the compensation, the peasants, for the first time, realised their own rights and were liberated from the fear that had plagued them.

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Mahatma Gandhi’s first Satyagraha was experimented on the soil of Motihari in the then Champaran district and, thus, Champaran has been the starting point of India’s independence movement launched by Gandhi. Buddhist Stupa: Located in Kesariya near Motihari, it is known to be the largest Buddha Stupa in the world.

Indigo Theme In the chapter ‘Indigo’, the main theme covered by the author is that how an effective leadership can overcome any problem. The chapter tells us about the leadership shown by Mahatma Gandhi to secure justice for the oppressed people through convincing argumentation and negotiation.

The theme of the story is that most human beings are prone to fall into the trap of material benefit. However, every human being has an essential goodness that can be awakened through understanding and love. A human being has the tendency to redeem himself from dishonest ways.

The title of the poem suggests that we must keep quiet for a moment. There will be silence and all will set together and realise the value of collectiveness. Here, we should not confuse ‘stillness’ with ‘total inactivity. ‘ Life should go on as it is doing about.