Which of the Following Statements Accurately Describes the Relationship Between

Which of the following statements accurately describes the relationship between the North and South during the first half of the nineteenth century?

A) The expansion of the cotton crop in the South increasingly divided the North and South because northern bankers and industry owners failed to reap any of the profits.
B) The agricultural focus of the South, which included the cotton crop, greatly slowed the expansion of global capitalism, which angered northern business titans.
C) The textile mills of New England and Great Britain purchased southern-grown cotton, and it became the central raw material driving the industrial revolution.
D) The North and South grew increasingly similar in that both had a balance between agriculture and industry and experienced the acceleration of the spread of slavery as a result.
E) Southerners in many ways felt indebted to northerners because although southern cotton helped in terms of clothing, northern rice and sugars had long sustained them in terms of food.