Correct answer choice is :
D) The rise of Jim Crow laws in the South.
Step-by-step explanation:
By the early 1870s, the policy identified as sharecropping had come to manage agriculture across the cotton-planting South. Under this policy, black families would hire small areas of land, or shares, to work themselves in return, they would give a share of their crop to the landowner at the end of the year.