Andrew Johnson of Tennessee and Joseph Brown of Georgia Rose

Andrew Johnson of Tennessee and Joseph Brown of Georgia rose to political power:

A) because of their membership in and identification with the planter class.
B) in the 1850s, as members of the small but influential southern Republican Party.
C) as self-proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters.
D) as proponents of gradual emancipation plans in order to destroy the "slavocracy."