Question 3 • OK-Oklahoma History
After the Civil War, most formerly enslaved people were not given land and lacked the money to buy farms. Sharecropping let them farm land owned by someone else in exchange for a share of the crop, so it became widespread in the Cotton Belt. Choice C correctly describes why many former slaves entered the system; sharecropping usually kept farmers in debt rather than helping them quickly acquire their own farms.
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