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Were Quakers wealthy land owners who lived in the southern colonies?

Yes, Quakers were wealthy land owners who live in the southern colonies.


What group supported McKinley?

wealthy farmers


How were people in the southern colonies?

Most of them were wealthy, religious, plantation owners.


Wealthy Southern plantation owners lived lives very much like the wealthy of what nation?

England


What political party was supported by wealthy southern plantation owners and New Englanders?

Federalist


Who had political power in the southern colonies?

Rich white plantation owners and they're control of slaves and cotton.


Who held the most political and economic power in the south?

small farmers formed the majority of the southern population, the planters controlled much of the south's economy.


Why were wealthy farmers the powerful people in the southern society?

They were more than farmers they owned vast amounts of land and slaves. The growth of cotton after the invention of the cotton gin added more money to the coffers of the wealthy and tobacco was another crop that gave vast wealth. There were poor farmers in the south as well , but the plantation owners controlled the south and held positions of power.


What was the southern class structure before the civil war?

Up top it was the wealthy land/ plantation owners that had acres of land. Then the small land owners After that the peasents Then the slaves


What were the majority of the southern farmers?

The majority of southern farmers in the United States before the Civil War were small farmers who owned few slaves or none at all. These farmers primarily grew food crops such as corn, wheat, and vegetables for their own consumption and for local markets. Only a small percentage of southern farmers owned large plantations worked by enslaved laborers.


Was there a large majority of the white population of the South that owned slaves?

No. The majority of people in the Southern Colonies were small farmers who did not own slaves and people who did not own land at all. The earliest plantation owners were in the minority and were mostly British in origin. Many white people were just as poor as the black slaves and many had to hire themselves out to do work for the wealthy land owners.


Who would most likely support a democratic candidate in 1896 supporters of tariffs or factory owners or commercial interests or southern farmers?

Populists