Question

Which of these correctly describes an aspect of sharecropping?

A It was invented after the end of Reconstruction.
B It was found mostly in the Midwestern region of the United States.
C Sharecroppers planted whatever the landowner wanted them to plant.
D Sharecroppers owned their tools and equipment but not the land they farmed.
Which of these crops would MOST likely have been farmed by tenant farmers?

A cotton
B tobacco
C rice
D corn
By the start of the 1900s

A tenant farming had ceased to exist.
B nearly 2 million people were tenant farmers in the South.
C most sharecroppers had become tenant farmers.
D there were no more white tenant farmers.
Which of these played the biggest role in ending the sharecropping and tenant farming systems?

A World War II
B increased mechanization of farms
C the end of the Jim Crow era
D the start of the Great Depression

Answer 1

1) C — Sharecroppers usually had to grow the crops the landowner wanted.
2) A — Cotton (a common cash crop grown by tenant farmers).
3) B — By 1900 nearly 2 million people in the South were tenant farmers.
4) B — Increased mechanization of farms (tractors, harvesters) was the biggest factor in ending sharecropping/tenant farming.