Members of the Planter Aristocracy

question 27

Multiple Choice

Members of the planter aristocracy  

• A) produced fewer front-rank statesmen than the North.
• B) dominated society and politics in the South.
• C) provided democratic rule in the South.
• D) promoted tax-supported public education.
• E) were much more progressive about race and black people than white yeoman farmers and laborers in the South.

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Longitudinal Study

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Conformity

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Self-direction

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