Jim Crow and End of Reconstruction · US History

What was sharecropping?

A federal program that promised every freed family exactly forty acres of farmland and a mule
A labor union for railroad workers
A farming system in which tenants worked land in exchange for a share of the crop
A banking system that eliminated farm debt

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Correct answer: A farming system in which tenants worked land in exchange for a share of the crop

Sharecropping became common in the South after the Civil War. Many freedpeople and poor whites farmed land owned by others and often became trapped in cycles of debt.

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