Discuss the economic conditions of poor blacks and poor whites during the period of Reconstruction
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: By establishing the Freedmen's Bureau, the national government attempted to help blacks in their transition from slavery to freedom, but Congress refused to consider the confiscation of whites' property to provide a basis for black economic independence. As a result, both poor blacks and poor whites remained dependent on white landowners for their economic survival. Most of them became either tenant farmers or sharecroppers, producing a cash crop, usually cotton, dictated by the landowner.
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