Question

During the Industrial Revolution in the American South,

Answer 1

Answer:

The Correct Answer is D.

Explanation:

• Most, while southern were small farmers about a quarter of Southerners, had enslaved workers.
• Lack of industrialization, the most political and economic powers held in the wealthy planters.
• Planters had a very little interest in the Industrialization since they made money from the plantation.
• Southern society remains based on Cotton production.

Answer 2

D) about a quarter of Southerners had enslaved workers.

Not everyone in the South operated with slaves as their labor force. There were also smaller family farms and such.  But those who did hold slaves in operating plantations held large numbers of slaves, and so the institution of slavery was a gigantic part of the Southern economy.