Which of the following explains why the states with the highest percentage of farms and plantations that were 500 acres or more in 1860 were concentrated in the southeastern part of the United States?
a) The economy of the South was centered on the cultivation of labor-intensive crops that required large tracts of land and depended on slave labor.
b) Northerners with the capital to expand their operations purchased large tracts of land in the South to build factories that employed yeoman farmers.
c) As the cultivation of tobacco became less challenging and more profitable in the Upper South, slaveholders combined their farms and plantations.
d) The transition of the white population in the South from yeoman farmers to slaveholders led to a proliferation of large farms and plantations.
a) The economy of the South was centered on the cultivation of labor-intensive crops that required large tracts of land and depended on slave labor.
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