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Which statement is true about the sharecropping economic activity in the South?

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In sharecropping, both freed slaves and poor whites borrowed land, seeds, and tools from a landowner, in exchange for a share of the crop at harvest time. In tenant farming, those with more cash could rent the land, and thus keep all of their harvest. During Reconstruction, the Southern economy was still heavily dependent on agriculture.

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