By the 1880s, What Had Happened to Most Southern Farmers

question 23

Multiple Choice

By the 1880s, what had happened to most southern farmers?

• A) They were the wealthiest, most stable members of southern society.
• B) They specialized in growing cash crops such as cotton and tobacco and therefore were particularly vulnerable to the fluctuations of commercial agriculture.
• C) They had left the land to become industrial workers because western competition drove southern farms out of business.
• D) They had sold their land to northern speculators.
• E) They were self-sufficient because they reverted to subsistence farming.

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