The Relationship Between Rich Southern Planters and Poor Southern Farmers

Multiple Choice

The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers

A) led to numerous violent uprisings in the southern hill country.
B) was complicated by the strong antislavery movement among poor farmers in the 1850s.
C) was strained by planters' insistence that farmers participate in the slave patrols.
D) showed itself in politics, with the poor becoming Whigs and planters becoming Democrats.
E) benefited in part from a sense of unity bred by criticism from outsiders.