Answer:
C) The system often trapped laborers in a cycle of debt and dependence while allowing landowners to profit from laborers hard work.
Explanation:
Sharecropping is a labor system in which a person agrees to work on a plantation owners land. In return, the person renting the land agrees that they will give a share of their crops to the land owner.
This system became prevelant in the US after the end of the Civil War. Thanks to the outlawing of slavery, thousands of farm owners now needed to find a labor system that would ensure their continued economic success.
The sharecropping system in the South would take the place of slavery. It would be abused by plantation and farm owners, as they constantly changed the terms of agreement with their tenants (of black citizens), resulting in a consistent cycle of poverty for the person renting the land.
Propaganda and creating assistance programs paid for by the federal government so that lower economic classes feel they are in dept to the government.
Answer:
The fact of having three separate branches of government was a persuasive argument for the ratification of the Constitution because, through the differentiation of the executive, legislative and judicial powers, the creation of tyrannical or totalitarian governments became very difficult. Thus, American citizens were guaranteed the permanent validity of their individual liberties and civil rights, which could not be curtailed or limited by dictatorial rulers, as the republican system itself establishes a system of checks and balances that allows members of the a specific branch to control the rest.
