mainly farming and agriculture such as cotton and tobacco plantations, things like that
no most of the southerners did not believe secession was illegal
mainly farming and agriculture such as cotton and tobacco plantations, things like that
most white southerners were non-slaveholding family farmers
where did most southerners live in the mid- 1850's ? cities and plantations
White
No. Most Southerners - even the majority of WHITE Southerners - owned no land at all.
where did most southerners live in the mid- 1850's ? cities and plantations
Most Southerners had their money invested in enslaved African Americans and farms.
white southerners
the compromise of 1850
Yes
Most southerners lived on plantations during the 1800's. As a result the South during the 1800's had a primarily agricultural based economy.