How did the end of slavery change the farming system in Texas?

After the civil war, there was an emergence of southern farm tenancy, a system of near slavery without legal sanctions with tenant farmers in place of slaves. The economy developed and became a money-based system, small farmers, increasingly became tenant farmers. The Civil War left the Texas economy in ruins. Many Texans returned to farming to support themselves and their families. Thanks to a combination of events, many farmers eventually were able to buy enough land to grow food to sell to others as well as to feed their families.

The economy developed and became a money-based system, small farmers, increasingly became tenant farmers. There was also sharecropping throughout Texas.

food and resources were plentiful.

women were encouraged to marry later in life so they could work in factories.