As a result of changes in the southern backcountry in the late nineteenth century,
a. farmers in that area became more dependent on merchants.
b. yeomen and African Americans began to ally against large landowners.
c. poor farmers were allowed to let their animals feed on the open range.
d. yeomen forged a political alliance with large landowners.
a
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