Why Did the South Fail to Attract Significant Economic Development

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 came to the South for cheap labor and low taxes, so they made few capital investments in the region.
D) Southern white supremacists tended to scare off northern capital industries.