What best describes the south in the years leading up to the civil war?

Explanation:

In the years leading up to the American Civil War, both Southerners and Northerners sought cheap, if also usable, land in the West.

A. Largely agrarian, with slave owners in the minority.

Explanation:

according to the quotation from booker t. washington's 1895 atlanta compromise speech.

in the great leap from slavery to freedom . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . we shall prosper . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor.

washington believed that  hard work had its own kind of dignity.

explanation:

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b.provides a written record of the transaction