Question

By the time of the Civil War, cotton constituted nearly _____ of the total export trade of the United States: a) 10% b) 25% c) 50% d) 75%

Answer 1

Answer: C

Explanation: That five hundred million pounds of cotton made up nearly 55 percent of the entire United States export market, a trend that continued nearly every year until the outbreak of the Civil War. So C is the closest.