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Why did industry develop so slowly in the South?

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Answer:The southern economy and culture continued to focus on agriculture, especially growing cotton. Large-scale plantations were so profitable that few wealthy southerners saw value in investing in factories

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Because they didn’t have slaves anymore, they had to do it but themselves without help
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