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

The best explanation for why nonslaveholding farmers sided with planters against the abolitionist movement is:

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

This perspective reflects the aspirations of many nonslaveholding farmers who believed in the possibility of upward mobility and viewed support for the institution of slavery as aligned with their own economic interests and future social status.