The answer... I think is C... hope it helped :)
Answer: The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War. During Reconstruction, many small white farmers, thrown into poverty by the war, entered into cotton production, a major change from prewar days when they concentrated on growing food for their own families.
They would chose death to die with honor instead of being captured by the enemy and being forced to face capital punishment which would bring shame to themselves and their family
The primary goals of the Farmers Alliance was to increase the economic prosperity of farmers in the US by eliminating the lingering effects of the crop-lein system and to increase the political power of the farmers themselves.