Multiple choice

Which term best describes a poor tenant farmer who gives a part of his crop as rent?

  1. Sharecropper

  2. Carpetbagger

  3. Freedman

  4. Scalawag
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Explanation

A sharecropper is a tenant farmer who gives a portion of their crop to the landowner as rent. This system became common in the South after the Civil War.

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