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.

Answer 1

To find workers without paying them cash wages.

Landowners used sharecropping and tenant farming to secure labor and maintain control over formerly enslaved people while avoiding regular cash wages, often keeping workers in debt and tied to the land.