Question

In 1860, the largest number of white southerners select one:

a. owned a small number of slaves.
b. were nonslaveholding yeoman farmers.
c. were planters owning more than 20 slaves.
d. owned no land at all.

Answer 1

It's A

Step-by-step explanation:

The social structure of the South developed into a caste-like system. AND. At the bottom of the white social ladder were the impoverished white people who made up about 75 percent of the free population in the South.

Answer 2

the answer is B..............................