Following the end of the Civil War, most freedom and poor whites in the South earned a living through: (sharecropping and tenant farming; the textile industry; the financial industry; construction and manufacturing)

Answer 1

Following the end of the Civil War, most freedpeople and poor whites in the South earned a living through sharecropping and tenant farming. These systems became prevalent as they allowed landowners to exploit the labor of freed slaves and poor whites who, in return for a portion of the crops, worked on the land. This arrangement often resulted in a cycle of debt and poverty for the laborers.