What problems are associated with tenant farming and sharecropping?

Lack of cash or an independent credit system led to the creation of sharecropping.

High interest rates,

unpredictable harvests, and unscrupulous landlords and merchants often kept tenant farm families severely indebted, requiring the debt to be carried over until the next year or the next

The correct answer is D.)

Lincoln did not at the time think he would advocate for the abolishment of slavery but did not want it to spread any farther. Douglas on the other hand though that it would be best to leave it up to the states to decide for themselves about slavery.

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