<span>A. They lost much of their crops to floods and disease
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It is one of the several reason why farmers increasingly lost their independence to shopkeepers and merchants. this is because poor yield resulting from floods and diseases directed the masses to the shops and merchants ,away from the farmers.
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A: Pro-slavery settlers who came to Kansas from the neighboring state of Missouri
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Explanation:
The southern economy was based on trade
The north infringed on the Southerns by having high tariffs this was the main cause of the civil war