The Crop-Lien System

question 22

Multiple Choice

The crop-lien system:

• A) kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.
• B) became better as farm prices increased in the 1870s.
• C) enabled yeoman farmers to continue to function under the same system as before the Civil War.
• D) annoyed bankers and merchants who resented how it made them dependent on farmers.

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Definitions:

F-Ratio

A statistic used in ANOVA to compare the variance among group means to the variance within groups; a measure of variance between groups relative to variance within groups.

Main Effect

In statistical analysis, the direct impact of an independent variable on a dependent variable, disregarding the influences of or interactions with other variables.

Reject

In statistics, to refuse the null hypothesis based on evidence from sample data meeting a predetermined significance level.

Interaction Effect

In statistics, the effect that an independent variable has on the outcome variable depends on or varies according to the levels of one or more other independent variables.