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SAT US History Practice Question

In the post-Reconstruction South, the economic arrangement known as sharecropping involved

  1. A.groups of freed African American laborers working for wages on large plantations.
  2. B.agricultural workers signing contracts that bound them to a particular plantation for a period of time.
  3. C.former slaves being granted ownership rights to tracts of land that had previously been owned by slaveholders.
  4. D.landowners dividing up their land and allowing growers to use plots of land in exchange for a portion of the yearly yield.
  5. E.the gradual transition from a purely cash-crop agricultural economy to a mixed economy of farming and manufacturing.

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