By the Early Nineteenth Century, the South's Sugar Sector Was

By the early nineteenth century, the South's sugar sector was

A) the single biggest cash crop from the South thanks to slavery.
B) widespread because it required the use of little machinery.
C) second only to rice production in economic significance.
D) the number-one cash crop in the Carolinas due to the climate there.
E) largely based just in Louisiana because it was so expensive to produce.