Which Statement Is True About the Confederacy

question 16

Multiple Choice

Which statement is true about the Confederacy?

• A) The cornerstone of the Confederacy was the racist belief that whites were racially superior and blacks' natural condition was to be enslaved.
• B) The majority of whites in the Confederate states were slaveholders in 1860.
• C) The majority of whites in the Confederate states believed in free labor ideology.
• D) All whites in the Confederate states had supported secession.
• E) Most poor whites in Confederate states believed they would achieve economic independence if slavery were abolished.

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