Why Did Factories Develop Slowly in the South

question 78

Multiple Choice

Why did factories develop slowly in the South?

• A) Slave discipline was difficult to maintain in a factory system.
• B) The economic rewards of agriculture were more certain.
• C) Industrialization might have disrupted the traditional southern social structure.
• D) To raise the capital needed to build factories, Southerners would have had to sell slaves.
• E) All of these choices

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