Question

Why did sharecroppers often find themselves in continual debt?

a. To recover from poor harvests, some sharecroppers took out bank loans.
b. To increase their profits, some landowners inflated their expense costs.
c. To protect their property, some landowners required farmers to purchase insurance.
d. To buy better equipment, some sharecroppers bought on credit.

Answer 1

Answer:

B= To increase their profits, some landowners inflated their expense costs

Explanation:

The era of sharecropping in history was replete with severe indebtedness by tenant farm families who were mostly black families from the landowners. Some of the reasons for the high debt rate of the tenant farmers includes but not limited high interest rates by unscrupulous landlords and merchants, unpredictable harvests etc which often required the tenants to carry over their debts until the next year.