New York become the center of the nation's cotton economy after the War of 1812 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A) it already had miles of docks to accommodate a heavy level of shipping and a community of merchants to support the financial management and organization of the cotton economy.
B) its port was also accessible by coastal vessels from southern ports where the South's cotton was shipped north to New York and then reshipped either across the Atlantic to English ports or up Long Island Sound to Boston for New England mills.
C) an established port already, it had experienced workers, including dockworkers and longshoremen, to handle the hundreds of ships that did business there.
D) there were many cotton mills nearby and large amounts of cotton were grown within several hundred miles of the city.
Answer: D
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