The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"…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
-Which of the following is true concerning the economic condition of the South after the Civil War?

A) The South was politically, socially, and economically depressed.
B) Northerners who came to the South controlled the economics and politics of the South.
C) The North dumped all types of goods into the deprived South.
D) The Southern economy was a rival to the North in production of resources.