South lost many plantations and other property
Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross (pictured here) served in all of the following roles EXCEPT <u>(C) U.S. Senator for the state of Texas.</u>
Explanation:
Lawrence Sullivan Ross was born on September 27, 1838 in Bentonsport, Iowa Territory. In the year 1839 his family moved to Texas and in the year 1849 his family settled at Waco. he was the was the 19th Governor of Texas and also acted as a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and was the president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, which is know as the Texas A&M University.
Thus we can say that Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross (pictured here) served in all of the following roles EXCEPT <u>(C) U.S. Senator for the state of Texas.</u>
Most likely the target of that speech was towards B. the tobacco industry. Tobacco is still a large part of farming in the Southern United States, as it has been since before the formation of the United States.
The textile and coal industries were mostly in the north in the in what is now known as the "Rust Belt" due to the decline in manufacturing jobs since the 1980s. The shipbuilding industry would have been contained in coastal towns for the most part on either side of the country.