Why did the southern cotton industry have a hard time recovering after the civil war?
a. temperature changed so much that cotton couldn't be grown in the south.
b. cotton became too expensive to process.
c. foreign competition drove the price of cotton down.
d. clothes were no longer made out of cotton.

d

explanation:

i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years