Question

After the Civil War, freedmen in the South had

difficulty improving their economic condition
because
(1) literacy for formerly enslaved persons was
prohibited
(2) migration of factory workers from Northern
cities had created competition for jobs
(3) the federal government confiscated their 40acre grants
(4) the system of sharecropping kept them in a
cycle of poverty

Answer 1

I choose 4, often sharecropping made the black poorer and never got like white because this system work like a slave system.