Power Shift: Economic Status of State Legislators Before and After

question 34

Multiple Choice

Power Shift: Economic status of state legislators before and after The Revolutionary War
-Based on the graph,what shift in power took place after the Revolutionary War?

• A)southern states were more powerful than northern states
• B)the wealthy took power away from the lower classes-Consider This: Before the war wealthy Americans held more seats in state assemblies,but that shifted after the war.
• C)people with moderate income held more seats in state legislatures than the wealthy
• D)lawyers had more political power than farmers

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