Answer:
The South after the Civil War was transformed, in the lives of the Southern planters, freed slaves, and the non-slaveholding whites. The South destructed with ruins, deaths and starvation. Many of the landowners did not have the money to pay taxes. The money (Confederate States dollar) they had was of no value and the banks were in bankrupt in the South. Landowners tried to sell their land but were unable to because many were selling land which became cheap and it did not help them from the debt. The new system sharecropping, introduced so that the Southern landowners pay the debt.