To Earn the Federal Payments for Reducing Crops

question 21

Multiple Choice

To earn the federal payments for reducing crops:

• A) tenants and sharecroppers had to stick with lucrative staples such as cotton
• B) farmers had to let fields go idle for three years in a row
• C) many landowners kicked off black tenants in favor of whites
• D) farmers often starved because they were not allowed to grow even small vegetable gardens
• E) many landowners took their leased lands out of production

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