Question

Which statement helps explain why the South had limited industry at the start of the Civil War? Most Southern capital was devoted to slavery and plantations. The South did not have enough land to support an industrial economy. Unskilled Southern workers could not learn how to use advanced machines. Southern leaders believed that factories encouraged abolitionism.

Answer 1

Answer:

If the Confederacy had been a separate nation, it would have ranked as the fourth richest in the world at the start of the Civil War. so entrenched in the Southern economy that nothing—not even the belief that all men were. The benefits of slave-produced cotton extended to industries beyond the South.

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