Question 5 • (AG Q4) American History 8: 25-26 (AHostetler)
Sharecropping families often had to work hard to grow crops and pay the landowner a share of what they produced. Children helped with farm chores and fieldwork, leaving them little time or opportunity to attend school regularly. Therefore, the best answer is B: children had to help work on the farm, so they rarely went to school.
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