Question

What was the main reason landowners created sharecropping and tenant farming systems after the Civil War?

(1 point)
Responses

To find workers without paying them cash wages.
To find workers without paying them cash wages.

To grow many new types of crops in the South.
To grow many new types of crops in the South.

To give free land to formerly enslaved people.
To give free land to formerly enslaved people.

To follow new laws required by the government.
To follow new laws required by the government.
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Answer 1

To find workers without paying them cash wages.

Explanation: After the Civil War many Southern landowners lacked cash and freedpeople lacked land or money, so sharecropping/tenant farming let owners secure labor and payment in crops (often leading to debt peonage).