All of the following are true of Southern cotton from 1840 to 1860 EXCEPT that
A) its profitability enabled Southerners to become less dependent on Northern industry.
B) the demand for it increased with the growth of textile manufacturing.
C) its cultivation was spreading westward across the Lower South from the Atlantic coast.
D) it had become the most valuable staple crop in the region.
E) its production increased by more than three million bales.
A
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A) The Environmental Information Act B) The Environmental Impact Assessment Act C) The Consolidated Environmental Protection Act D) The National Environmental Policy Act E) The Environmental Damage Insurance Act
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a. Angelina Gimke b. Charles Grandison Finney c. Lucretia Mott d. Elizabeth Cady Stanton