Well into the mid-twentieth century,white planters gave blacks a small piece of land on which to grow crops and live often in squalid shacks) .In return,blacks gave white planters a portion of their crops.This process was called what?

A) sharecropping
B) unionizing
C) indentured servitude
D) grandfather clauses

Sharecropping

An agricultural system where a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.

Indentured Servitude

A form of labor contract where an individual agrees to work for another for a specified time in exchange for transportation, food, and accommodation.

Squalid Shacks

Poorly built and maintained small houses, often in a state of dirtiness and disrepair, associated with extreme poverty or lack of housing.