During the nineteenth century,the center of cotton production ________.
A) moved westward
B) moved eastward
C) moved northward
D) remained in the Southeast
E) remained in the upper South

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During the nineteenth century, the center of cotton production shifted from the Southeast to the Southwest, as cotton farming gradually spread to Texas, Oklahoma, and other states in the region. This was due in part to the exhaustion of soil in the Southeast and the opening of new areas for settlement in the West.

During the Nineteenth Century,the Center of Cotton Production ________