By the 1880s, what had happened to most southern farmers? question 10 options:
a.they were the wealthiest, most stable members of southern society.
b.they specialized in growing cash crops such as cotton and tobacco.
c.they had become the most well-educated farmers in the nation.
d.they had sold their land to northern speculators.
e.they were self-sufficient because they reverted to subsistence farming.