Praxis II Citizenship

Answer: C - No one had the notion that the South’s industrial might would help the Confederates win the Civil War because the South had little to no industrial might. In the mid-19th century, the U.S. economy was still primarily an agrarian-based economy, but the economies of the Confederate states were wholly agrarian. That’s why they were such staunch defenders of slavery-free labor was a vital resource in an economy based almost entirely on fieldwork that had yet to be mechanized on a large scale.