The Agricultural System Known as Sharecropping

question 19

Multiple Choice

The agricultural system known as sharecropping

• A)involved a worker being paid for a specific task rather than being paid an hourly wage.
• B)was established to assist black farmers but was not offered to white farmers.
• C)did not allow poor farmers to own the land,but allowed them to live and work free of overseers.
• D)allowed almost all poor farmers in the South to become landowners.

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