What is true about southern economic redevelopment?

A. Unlike the North, southern governments became notorious for corruption, which explains the skyrocketing public debt.
B. Republican-dominated Reconstruction governments sought to encourage southern industry.
C. One success of the postwar South was in laying as much railroad track as the rest of the nation combined.
D. Northerners known as "scalawags" came south to exploit the South's economic vulnerability.


Answer: B

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