History

Malia Townsend

18 January, 01:55

How did sharecropping restrict the rights of African Americans?

A. Northern businessmen owned most southern plantations where African Americans worked and refused to rent land to former slaves.

B. Sharecropping strictly prohibited African Americans from growing crops for themselves and resulted often in mass starvation.

C. Due to the cycle of poverty and debt that sharecropping created, African American labor was still being exploited by southern plantation owners.

D. African Americans sharecroppers were not permitted to purchase land for themselves.