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Why Did the South Fail to Attract Significant Economic Development

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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 looked for cheap labor and low taxes, but made few capital investments in the region.
D) Southern white supremacists tended to scare off northern capital industries.
E) Southern Klansmen scared away many interested investors.

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