What was one reason sharecropping began in the South?

After the Civil War, plantations still needed workers, while many formerly enslaved people had little land or money and needed a way to earn a living. Sharecropping connected these needs: workers farmed a landowner’s property and paid rent with part of the crop. The correct choice is “Landowners needed laborers, and freed slaves needed work.”

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