Question

Even though they owned no slaves, most southern whites supported the slave system because

a. they were bribed by the planter class. b. they enjoyed the economic benefits of slavery. c. they liked to feel racially superior to blacks and hoped to be able to buy slaves. d. they disliked the northern abolitionists.

Answer 1

Poor northern whites supported slaves because they felt racially superior to blacks and hoped to be able to buy slaves one day.