Tenant farming and sharecropping were systems that prevented the freedman from

A:owning his own land.
B:marrying.
C:voting.
D:learning to read.

Question

Tenant farming and sharecropping were systems that prevented the freedman from 

A:owning his own land. 
B:marrying. 
C:voting. 
D:learning to read.

anonymous · Answer

I do believe that a Freedman was a black that was no longer a slave due to the Emancipation Proclamation and whatnot. Anyways, tenant farming and sharecropping both involve a Freedman living on someone else's land. Therefore I'd have to go with A.

In addition if you are curious about causation, owning property was a requirement for men to vote back in those days, so it may have been a plot by the south to minimize the power that blacks were given when it came to voting, or anything else for that matter.