The correct answer is:
a. Cotton Mills
During the Reconstruction Era, Cotton became a protagonist in the industrial growth of the Southern States. Southern capitalists sank Money into cotton rather than factories or land. More precisely, they invested in slaves; the average slave owner held almost two-thirds of his wealth in slaves in 1860, much less than he held in land.
Answer:
C
Explanation:
incentive for men to stay, marry and settle down
Answer:
The rights to the coal were sold and land was set aside for the town to be built upon.
Explanation:
The town of Dawson originated when the rights to the coal was sold and land was set aside for the town to be built.
This transaction was done in 1901 as John Barkley Dawson sold his coal land to the Dawson Fuel Company and which they built the connecting town to Tucumcari