Author Question: Most planters in the boom states of Alabama and Mississippi in the 1840s a. were descended from ... (Read 139 times)

kwoodring · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

What was true of daughters in European working-class families?

a. They were expected to work until marriage.
b. By long custom, they were kept at home until of age to marry.
c. They were barred from working by state law in many countries.
d. They had traditionally never shown an interest in working either before or after marriage.
e. They enrolled in vocational schools until marriage and then entered the work-place.

Question 2

Most planters in the boom states of Alabama and Mississippi in the 1840s

a. were descended from old Virginia and South Carolina families.
b. lived in grand plantation mansions.
c. had begun to see the slave-labor system as a hindrance to economic progress.
d. were newly rich.