Question

In a system called __, wealthy whites would allow blacks and poor whites to live on and work the land. They would sometimes provide all the tools, food, seed and shelter they needed. In exchange, they gave the landowner half of all the proceeds of the harvest

Mule-skinning

Sharecropping

Land lease

Tenant farming

Answer 1

The system you are describing is called **Sharecropping**. In this arrangement, impoverished farmers (often black and poor white individuals) would work on land owned by wealthy landowners and share a portion of the harvest with the landowner as payment for the use of the land and resources provided.