Sharecropping was very hard for African American families in the 1800's.
             They were basically working for a place to live, while being in debt the
             rest of their lives. African American families would work long, hard days
             for many hours for absolutely zero pay.
             Adults weren't the only ones doing all of the work. The whole family,
             including children worked also. As you can see, these sharecropping
             children did not have an easy life. They worked just as hard, if not harder,
             Here is a small layout of what the plantations may have looked like.
             You can see in this sketch many African Americans working all
             over the entire plantation. They did all the work on these large farms.
             Here is a photo of a group of the Breaker Boys. These boys worked
             long, strenuous hours doing work that should be done by an adult.
             As you can see in this picture, these boys worked very hard for
             You can see how exhausted and sad this boy looks. He has been working
             for many hours in a hot, sticky factory. Child labor needed to be stopped
             This boy is sawing a piece of wood by himself at this factory. This was a
             very unsafe enviroment. A child this young shuld not of been using
             a piece of machinery like this by himself. This is another reason
             child labor despretly needed to be stopped.
             Here you can see how depressed and sad these Native Americans
             were. All of this was a result from the Dawes Act. It pushed the Native
             people out of the land they had set territory on first to small reservations
             This map shows where the reservations were located in the U.S.
             As you can see, the Natives were oushed to the northern and southern
             part of America. They had little to no land to to start their lives work
             This is a photo of Native Americans on their reservations. They were
             tryin to get as much education as they c
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