Which statement best describes the system of sharecropping?
sharecropping offered formerly enslaved people an equal opportunity to participate in the southern economy.
sharecropping gave formerly enslaved people the upper hand in the agricultural south.
sharecropping offered northerners an opportunity to relocate to the south and start their own farms.
sharecropping gave white landowners the upper hand and economic dominance in southern society.

Sharecropping gave white landowners the upper hand and economic dominance in Southern society.

Option D

Explanation:

Share cropping is a form of agriculture in which the owner of the land gives his land to the tenants where they can grow the crops and earn their livelihood. So this system of agriculture gave an upper hand to the land owners who belonged to the people of the white community and gave them an economic dominance also. It suppressed the lower sections of the society who were the tenants and who were dependent on the land owners for borrowing the land.