What Finally Prompted Many Southern Yeomen and Tenant Farmers to Support

question 12

Multiple Choice

What finally prompted many southern yeomen and tenant farmers to support independence from Britain in 1775?

• A) The harsh tactics employed by the British military in the North
• B) The economic blockade imposed by the British Navy in the Atlantic
• C) Virginia's royal governor's promise to free any slave who joined the Loyalists
• D) The angry Parliament's threat to ban the use of tobacco throughout the British Empire

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