What Prevented White Southerners from Working to Diversify Their Economy

question 68

Multiple Choice

What prevented white southerners from working to diversify their economy in the nineteenth century?

• A) Southerners did not want to exploit white workers economically.
• B) Wealthy southern investors believed agricultural labor was more virtuous than industrial labor.
• C) Southerners resisted railroad construction because they believed it would divide large landholdings.
• D) Wealthy planters believed that the plantation economy would continue to produce wealth indefinitely.

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