Question

guided practice
which farming arrangement took advantage of poor farmers the most?
a. free farming
b. tenant farming
c. sharecropping
d. share-tenancy

Explanation:

Free farming refers to farmers working their own land, so it does not exploit poor farmers. Tenant farming involves farmers renting land for cash or fixed payments, which is less exploitative than systems tying farmers to debt cycles. Share-tenancy is a system where farmers pay a portion of crops as rent, but sharecropping is the most exploitative: poor farmers (often without their own tools, seed, or land) are forced to give a large share of their harvest to landowners, and they frequently become trapped in cycles of debt due to high costs for supplies from landowners, putting them at severe economic disadvantage.

Answer:

C. sharecropping