In the years after the Civil War, many freedmen ended up working as
A) farmers on land they owned.
B) farmers under a sharecropper system.
C) wage laborers in the new textile mills.
D) itinerant day laborers in domestic and service jobs.

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After the Civil War, many freedmen became sharecroppers, a system where they farmed land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops, often leading to cycles of debt and poverty.

In the Years After the Civil War, Many Freedmen Ended