After the Civil War, the sharecropping system
emerged in the South primarily as a way to
(1) diversify agricultural production
(2) provide a labor supply to plantation owners
(3) give forty acres of land to freedmen
(4) guarantee economic equality for African
Americans
After the Civil War, the sharecropping system emerged in the South primarily as a way to "(2) provide a labor supply to plantation owners", which was a failure.