What Was True of the South and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century

Multiple Choice

What was true of the South and slavery in nineteenth-century America?

A) England did not need cotton from the South.
B) The South's total population consisted of 20 percent slaves.
C) As it moved closer to 1860, the rate of natural increase for the slave population was decreasing.
D) The amount of money invested in slavery was a small part of the economy.
E) The Old South had developed into the largest and most powerful slave society the modern world has known.