Question

question 20
this term designated small, white southern farmers and set them apart from the planter class.
a paternalism.
b gentry.
c mulatto.
d yeoman.

Explanation:

• Paternalism refers to a system where those in power act in a father - like way towards those under them, often in a controlling sense. It does not refer to small white southern farmers.
• Gentry generally refers to a higher - class group, often with some social standing and property, but not specifically small farmers.
• Mulatto is a term related to a person of mixed - race (usually Black and White ancestry), not related to the class of small white farmers.
• Yeoman was a term used to describe small, independent white farmers in the South who were distinct from the large - scale planter class.

Answer:

D. Yeoman