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"…They buried him in the midst of a marble quarry-they cut through solid marble to make his grave-and yet a little tombstone they put above him was from Vermont.They buried him in the heart of a pine forest,and yet the pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati…the iron in the shovel that dug his grave was imported from Pittsburg.They buried him by the side of the best sheep-grazing country on earth…and the coffin bands were brought from the North.The South didn't furnish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole in the ground…"
Henry Grady,1889
-In this excerpt,Henry Grady expresses frustration with which of the following realities?


A) Despite some attempts at federal regulation of the economy, episodes of market instability persisted.
B) Despite some industrial investment in the South immediately after the Civil War, agriculture remained the primary economic activity in the South.
C) Despite Reconstruction-era efforts to provide for the civil rights of newly-freed slaves, discrimination and oppression remained powerful forces.
D) Despite increased federal investment in transportation infrastructure, the South remained physically isolated from the North and West.

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