The Tenancy System: The Forgotten Farmer.

Chilcoat, George W.

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ERIC Number: EJ433674

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1991

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ISSN: ISSN-0882-228X

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The Tenancy System: The Forgotten Farmer.

Chilcoat, George W.

OAH Magazine of History, v5 n3 p39-45 Win 1991

Develops a lesson explaining the farm tenancy system in which displaced farmers work on large landowners' farms. Describes various forms of tenancy: small farmer, cash tenant, share tenant, sharecropper, and migrant worker. Provides lyrics from eight folk songs and lists questions to help students retrieve information about farm tenancy in the songs' lyrics. (CH)

Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Economic Factors, Farmers, Folk Culture, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities, Migrant Workers, Rural Sociology, Secondary Education, Sharecroppers, Small Group Instruction, Social History, Social Studies, United States History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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