Question 1 • (AG Q4) American History 8: 25-26 (AHostetler)
After the Civil War, landowners needed a way to get labor to work their farms, while formerly enslaved people needed jobs and access to land. Sharecropping developed to meet both needs, though it often trapped workers in debt. It was not mainly created to help formerly enslaved people become independent, and choice C reverses who needed workers.
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