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Which statements best describe the majority of southerners during the pre-Civil War era?
They owned small farms.
They could not afford to buy enslaved people.
They were the political and economic leaders of the South.
They grew large amounts of tobacco or cotton.
They worked hard on completing a variety of tasks.
They mainly grew food crops and raised livestock.
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Correct choices:
- They owned small farms.
- They could not afford to buy enslaved people.
- They worked hard on completing a variety of tasks.
- They mainly grew food crops and raised livestock.
Explanation: Most white Southerners were yeoman farmers who ran small, largely subsistence farms, did many kinds of farm labor themselves, and rarely owned slaves or large cash-crop plantations (which produced most of the region’s tobacco or cotton).
- They owned small farms.
- They could not afford to buy enslaved people.
- They worked hard on completing a variety of tasks.
- They mainly grew food crops and raised livestock.
Explanation: Most white Southerners were yeoman farmers who ran small, largely subsistence farms, did many kinds of farm labor themselves, and rarely owned slaves or large cash-crop plantations (which produced most of the region’s tobacco or cotton).
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