It was important because it started the American revolution
        
             
        
        
        
It was the main supplier of cotton 
it was the central rail hub 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
All of the following were essential to the Soviet defense against the Nazis except "<span>d. Outrage at the German treatment of Jewish minorities in eastern Europe," since the Russians were largely indifferent to this. </span>
        
             
        
        
        
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After the civil war the south also known as the confederacy needed to reconstruct its economy, Its social structure, and it's overall being remembering that a war had just torn through the country. Reconstruction ultimately failed in 1877 after Rutherford b. Hayes negotiated with Louisiana and more states to remove federal government if they aided him to become president.
 
        
             
        
        
        
The first one protects the freedom of the press