Author Question: Farmers were slow to organize and promote their interest because they a. were divided between ... (Read 51 times)

D2AR0N · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Farmers were slow to organize and promote their interest because they

a. were divided between small, self-sufficient family farmers and large cash crop farmers with onerous mortgages.
b. did not possess the money necessary to establish a national political movement.
c. did not believe they could compete politically with wealthier, more powerful manufacturers and railroad barons.
d. were too busy trying to eke out a living.
e. were, by nature, highly independent and individualistic.

Question 2

As a result of the Missouri Compromise

a. there were more slave than free states in the Union.
b. slavery was outlawed in all states north of the forty-second parallel.
c. slavery was banned north of 36 30' in the Louisiana Purchase territory.
d. Missouri was required to free its slaves when they reached full adulthood.
e. there were more free states than second states in the Union.