By the Mid-Nineteenth Century

question 4

Multiple Choice

By the mid-nineteenth century  

• A) most southerners owned slaves.
• B) the smaller slaveholders owned a majority of the slaves.
• C) most slaves lived on large plantations.
• D) slavery was a dying institution.
• E) southerners were growing defensive about slavery.

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