Most Planters in the Boom States of Alabama and Mississippi

question 24

Multiple Choice

Most planters in the boom states of Alabama and Mississippi in the 1840s _________________.

• A) were descended from old Virginia and South Carolina families
• B) lived in grand plantation mansions
• C) had begun to see the slave-labor system as a hindrance to economic progress
• D) were newly rich

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