Which Statement Best Explains Why Yeoman Farmers with No Slaves

question 23

Multiple Choice

Which statement best explains why yeoman farmers with no slaves still supported the slave system that mainly benefited wealthy planters?

• A) Planters and non‒slave-owning yeomen shared a belief in white skin privilege.
• B) The democratization of politics made the gap between rich and poor largely disappear.
• C) Non‒slave owners often became as wealthy as or wealthier than slave-owning planters.
• D) Yeoman farmers saw capitalism and industrialization, not farming with slave labor, as their best path to wealth.

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