Under the sharecropping system, poor farmers would
A) rent land from large landowners in exchange for half the crop produced on the land.
B) work as wage laborers on the farms of large landowners.
C) do handiwork on large farms in exchange food.
D) receive a share of the crop from a large farm in an early version of a welfare system.
E) pool their land and shared in whatever crops they produced.

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Sharecropping was a system where poor farmers, often former slaves, would rent small plots of land from a landowner to farm. In return, they would give a portion of their crop, usually about half, to the landowner as rent. This system was prevalent in the Southern United States after the Civil War.

Under the Sharecropping System, Poor Farmers Would