Question

Wealthy plantation owners made up of colonial southern society?

Answer 1

Wealthy plantation owners made up 3 percent of the southern population

Answer 2

The options of the question are A) The majority, B) There were no plantations in the South, C) The whole society, and D) a small portion.

The correct answer is D) A small portion.

Wealthy plantation owners made up a small portion of colonial Southern society.

The plantation is the South had consequences. It deeply divided the people because it generated divisions of class. The contrast of wealthy people who owned plantations and the poor working class affected the society of the Southern states. Wealthy plantation owners were only a small portion of colonial Southern society. Mostly, the society was comprised of poor farmers and slaves.