Sharecropping was created to address which two problems?
o the need to provide jobs for newly freed
enslaved people
the need to provide loans for farmers to buy
seed and other supplies
the labor shortage in agriculture following the
Civil War

How did the church gain secular power? a) monks forced massive numbers of people to convert through fear of punishment. b) the church issued interdicts, laws passed by the church regardless of secular law. c) the church's power to deny the sacraments gave the church power over christians. d) canon law established secular courts under the control of the church.