The Institution of Sharecropping __________

question 36

Multiple Choice

The institution of sharecropping __________.

• A) created an economic system that rewarded hard work
• B) provided each free slave with the rewards promised by emancipation
• C) created a vicious cycle in which poor black farmers were mired in debt and poverty
• D) provided former slaves with "forty acres and a mule"

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