Question

How did the system of sharecropping affect landowners and laborers in the South?

A)The system did not provide landowners with enough profits because laborers often took sizable cuts.

B) The system typically drove laborers off the farms they had worked when they were enslaved and left landowners without workers.

C)The system often trapped laborers in a cycle of debt and dependence while allowing landowners to profit from laborers’ hard work.

D) The system left landowners with mounting piles of debt because laborers had little to no incentives to work the fields.

Answer 1

the answer would b letter C. :P

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

C) The system often trapped laborers in a cycle of debt and dependence while allowing landowners to profit from laborers hard work.

Step-by-step explanation:

Sharecropping is a labor system in which a person agrees to work on a plantation owners land. In return, the person renting the land agrees that they will give a share of their crops to the land owner.

This system became prevelant in the US after the end of the Civil War. Thanks to the outlawing of slavery, thousands of farm owners now needed to find a labor system that would ensure their continued economic success.

The sharecropping system in the South would take the place of slavery. It would be abused by plantation and farm owners, as they constantly changed the terms of agreement with their tenants (of black citizens), resulting in a consistent cycle of poverty for the person renting the land.