52. The sharecropping system in the South following Reconstruction had the effect of (A) allowing many former slaves and poor white tenant farmers, who could have never otherwise owned land, to buy their own farms (B) moving many former slaves and poor white tenant farmers into the middle class (C) pushing tenant farmers and poor independent farmers into deep levels of debt to large landowners and merchants (D) helping to limit the power of former plantation owners and Northern business interest (E) changing the basic attitudes of whites and blacks who were now forced to work side-by-side farming the same land.

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