The correct answer is option D : eventually fell into debt.
The small landowner often had to guarantee a portion of his upcoming crop to the country merchant, in exchange for the goods he needed - which were purchased on credit. The sharecropper worked someone else's land and paid rent with a portion of his harvest.
Why other options are incorrect ?
- Because the Small land owners had no land of their own they had to work on other's land and had to pay high taxes for that also paid a lot of rent due to which they eventually started going into a debt.
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