Question

Which of the following best explains why nonslaveholding farmers sided with planters against the abolitionist movement?(1 point)
Responses

Planters promised to give nonslaveholding farmers new benefits if they worked together.
Planters promised to give nonslaveholding farmers new benefits if they worked together.

Nonslaveholding farmers tended to see themselves one day becoming planters and plantation owners.
Nonslaveholding farmers tended to see themselves one day becoming planters and plantation owners.

Nonslaveholding farmers worried that abolitionists were going to create a new nullification crisis focused on slavery.
Nonslaveholding farmers worried that abolitionists were going to create a new nullification crisis focused on slavery.

Nonslaveholding farmers did not believe that northern Americans should comment on the institution of slavery.

Answer 1

Nonslaveholding farmers tended to see themselves one day becoming planters and plantation owners.

They often identified with planters' interests and supported the slave system out of aspiration for upward mobility and racial solidarity, even though most never owned slaves.