All of the following contributed to the rise of sharecropping in the South except

a. the poverty of many white southerners and former slaves.
b. the shortage of money.
c. the refusal of former slaves to work in gangs.
d. repeated cotton crop failures.
e. all of these choices.


ANS: D

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