Question

Sharecropping:__________.
a. meant that African-Americans were paid their share daily for doing specific tasks.
b. became more popular because of rising farm prices that brought increased prosperity.
c. was most popular in the old rice-plantation areas of South Carolina and Georgia.
d. was a compromise between African-Americans’ desire for discipline and planters’ desire to learn to do physical labor.
e. was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision).

Answer 1

Answer: e. was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision).

Explanation:

Sharecropping developed, then, as a system that theoretically benefited both parties. Landowners could have access to the large labor force necessary to grow cotton, but they did not need to pay these laborers money,