What was true about sharecropping? a. landowner provided free tools and seeds. b. workers could leave the land if they failed to make money. c. landowners often took advantage of workers. d. workers received ownership of the land they farmed after a set number of years.

The correct answer is C. What was true about sharecropping was that landowners often took advantage of workers.

Explanation:

Sharecropping was used more as a covert slavery than as a fair deal. Through sharecropping, therefore, the landowners secured the work of his possessions through the exploitation of African-American workers, who in exchange took a very low percentage of what was produced. In this way, a situation of economic dependence similar to that of slavery was generated, since African Americans continued to be subject to the will of the white landowners.

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