How effective is the concluding section, "Cotton And Slavery Were Essential To The South," at closing the topic of slavery and cotton in
America's early economy?*
(A) It is effective because it describes how ongoing disagreements over the economic
interests of the South led to the Civil War.
(B) It is effective because it explains how the economic interests of the South shaped
the states in the West and Midwest.
(C) It is not effective because it fails to elaborate on the economic problems that the
country faced during the Civil War.
(D) It is not effective because it attempts to compare and contrast states that
supported secession with those that did not.