What Was the Largest Group of Southern Whites in the Antebellum

question 46

Multiple Choice

What was the largest group of southern whites in the antebellum period?

• A) Planters
• B) Small slaveholders
• C) Nonslaveholding yeomen
• D) Urban shopkeepers
• E) People of the pine barrens

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