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1850s - South farmers and planters?

For farmers and planters in the South, the 1850s was a period of:

A) low prices for agricultural products
B) rapid and violent fluctuations in crop prices
C) high crop prices due to repeated crop failures
D) high crop prices and sustained prosperity
E) desperate poverty culminating in the panic of 1857

I'm leaning towards D, but I'm not totally sure!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I would say D as well because that was pre-Civil War and the South used their crops to sustain their living. At that time the prices were good because of the low costs of slave labor. I would say you're correct......there was no economic panic in 1857. That would still have been in the James Bucannan era.

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