Question

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

Answer 1

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.