What was a major economic development in the south during reconstruction?

Question

A) creation of large commercial and banking centers

B) Spread of sharecropping

C) Rise of large-scale commercial farming

D) Decline of the textile industry

E) Emergence of the cotton economy

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Answer 1

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B - the spread of sharecropping. The landowners needed labor, and the freed slaves needed jobs to feed themselves.

Answer 2

E is definitely NOT the answer. The cotton economy started way before reconstruction.

Answer 3

B)