Local Leaders would be correct.
(B, local leaders)
<span>B) the harsh reparation agreement stipulated in the Treaty of Versailles
Especially for Germany, who had to print large amounts of money, which decreased their currency worth, and led to the Great Depression
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Southern states were known as the cotton kingdom because the cotton population in the south was rapidly growing. Rich plantation owners would grow cotton and sell them to the New England region to make clothes etc.