Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth-century South?
a. A major redistribution of land ownership
b. A diversification of crops
c. A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers
d. A rise in cotton yields per acre from antebellum production levels
e. The termination of the control exerted by White
Ans: c. A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers
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By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the
a. border states of Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland. b. Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. c. old South states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. d. new Southwest states of Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory. e. mountain regions of Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
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