Sharecropping: a. was a compromise between african-americans' desire for discipline and planters' desire to learn to do physical labor. b. became more popular because of rising farm prices that brought increased prosperity. c. was preferred by african-americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision). d. meant that african-americans were paid their share daily for doing specific tasks. e. was most popular in the old rice-plantation areas of south carolina and georgia.