<span><u><em>The correct answer is:</em></u>
B. Great profits at the expense of cultural development and equal opportunity.<span>
<u><em>Explanation:</em></u>
Even though the plantation system resulted in huge profits thanks to crops like tobacco and cotton, many Southern states focused solely on this form of labor to make money.
Being focused on only agricultural resulted in limited development of Southern culture.
Along with this, the enslavement of blacks in the South resulted in unequal opportunities for Southern citizens.
Blacks did not have legal, political, or economic rights. Rather, they were viewed as property and treated horribly by their owners. </span></span>
In Asia, different leaders used different ruling techniques. Depending on the time period of this question, you can use China, with points about their bureaucracy and their civil exam system (where you have to be intelligent to be in the government). You can use the Japan and their Tokugawa system. They had a ranking of people like the Samaria and leaders. That’s how they exercised their power.
