Question

Why did the southern cotton industry have a hard time recovering after the Civil War?

a. Temperature changed so much that cotton couldn't be grown in the South.
b. Cotton became too expensive to process.
c. Foreign competition drove the price of cotton down.
d. Clothes were no longer made out of cotton.

Answer 1

The correct answer should be b. Cotton became too expensive to process.

The cotton industry was base on slavery and now that slavery was abolished the big landowners and company owners had nobody to work for free. With the lack of money to finance workers, the cotton farms decayed.