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What was the crop-lien system?

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DescriptionThe crop-lien system was a credit system that became widely used by cotton farmers in the United States in the South from the 1860s to the 1930s. Sharecroppers and tenant farmers, who did not own the land they worked, obtained supplies and food on credit from local merchants.
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A: a system in which farmers promised to pay for goods with earnings from future crops

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next is A: increased debt for farmers

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