The institution of sharecropping __________
a. created an economic system that rewarded hard work
b. provided each free slave with the rewards promised by emancipation
c. created a vicious cycle in which poor black farmers were mired in debt and poverty
d. provided former slaves with “forty acres and a mule”
ANS: C
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false