Manufacturing lagged in the South because
A. high profits from agriculture discouraged other possible investments.
B. whites believed slaves could not do industrial work.
C. the South lacked a suitable white workforce, since immigrants settled in the North.
D. slaveowners lacked capital to invest in manufacturing.
Answer: A
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