Advanced Placement-Style United States History
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Evergreen Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana,
an example of the antebellum Southern ideal
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Question 964:

Why did non-slaveholding southerners support the slave system?

    (A)    some hoped to be slaveholders
    (B)    they readily accepted the racist assumptions of slavery
    (C)    they feared what freed slaves might do
    (D)    as long as slaves were in the social order, poor whites were not at the bottom of the social pyramid
    (E)    all of the above


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