George Calvert was the first person to dream of a colony in America where Catholics<span> and Protestants could prosper together. He was born in Yorkshire, England and studied at Trinity College at Oxford. </span>
<h2>The relative absence of enterprises engaged in manufacturing and finance prior to the Civil War in the Southern states is MOST LIKELY <em>due to the dependence on cotton farming in the South.</em> The invention of Whitney's cotton gin increased the South's dependency on cotton farming, and wealth flowed into the hands of the elite.</h2>
The answer is 'D' (it says the former, referring to MLK)