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Question 1

By 1860, the textile manufacturing sector of the American South
 
  A. had come to dominate the South's economy.
 
  B. had increased threefold in value over the previous twenty years.
 
  C. was nonexistent.
 
  D. was equal to one-third of the value of cotton exported that year.
 
  E. had declined in value throughout the 1840s and 1850s.

Question 2

The South may have failed to develop a large industrial economy due to all the following factors EXCEPT
 
  A. a shortage of labor.
 
  B. the profitability of cotton.
 
  C. cultural values.
 
  D. the humid climate.
 
  E. little access to liquid capital.

Question 3

The New Orleans magazine publisher, James D. B. De Bow, championed
 
  A. southern commercial and agricultural growth.
 
  B. southern economic independence from the North.
 
  C. closer economic ties with the North, and southern commercial and agricultural growth.
 
  D. southern economic independence from the North, and southern commercial and agricultural growth.
 
  E. closer economic ties with the North.

Question 4

By the time of the Civil War, cotton constituted nearly ________ of the total export trade of the United States.
 
  A. two-thirds
 
  B. half
 
  C. one-fourth
 
  D. one-tenth
 
  E. one-third



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again




 

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