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Which of the following was the most basic reason the South needed a cheap form of labor like sharecropping?A. Cheap labor meant higher profit for factory ownersB. Agricultural production depended on cheap laborC. Sharecropping meant more Southerners were employedD. Former slaves could own land because of sharecropping

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Answer:

B-) Agricultural production depended on cheap labor

Explanation:

The South really needed the cheapest labor force they could find because landowner wanted to get rich or improve their wealthy, they had to send workforce to the fields , specially cotton fields because everybody neede to get dressed, for that reason they decided to use slaves.

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