SAT US History Practice Question
In the post-Reconstruction South, the economic arrangement known as sharecropping involved
- A.groups of freed African American laborers working for wages on large plantations.
- B.agricultural workers signing contracts that bound them to a particular plantation for a period of time.
- C.former slaves being granted ownership rights to tracts of land that had previously been owned by slaveholders.
- D.landowners dividing up their land and allowing growers to use plots of land in exchange for a portion of the yearly yield.
- E.the gradual transition from a purely cash-crop agricultural economy to a mixed economy of farming and manufacturing.
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