what is the difference between sharecropping and tenant farming

Answer 1

Sharecropping is the practice in which a landowner allows a tenant to farm the land in exchange for a specified share of the crops.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping

Tenant farming is the practice in which a landowner rents the land.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenant_farmer

http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/T/TE009.html