Which of the following describes sharecropping?
A. Farmers helped each other to conserve labor and produce more crops.
B. Farmers rented and worked plots of land supplied by landowners in return for a portion of their crop.
C. Immigrants received special crops to farm to symbolize united political beliefs.
D. Immigrants worked plots of land in return for free rent for their families.
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The answer is B. Farmers rented and worked plots of land supplied by landowners in return for a portion of their crop. Sharecropping was a system of agriculture in which a landowner allowed a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.
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