Why Did the South Fail to Attract Significant Economic Development

question 79

Multiple Choice

Why did the South fail to attract significant economic development in the wake of Reconstruction?

• A) Northern investors stayed away, appalled by southern race relations.
• B) Northerners considered a South without African-Americans in chains too risky for investment.
• C) Investors looked for cheap labor and low taxes, but made few capital investments in the region.
• D) Southern white supremacists tended to scare off northern capital industries.
• E) Southern Klansmen scared away many interested investors.

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