{"id":8041,"date":"2024-09-27T21:29:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/?post_type=mcq&#038;p=8041"},"modified":"2024-09-27T21:29:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:29:56","slug":"what-was-the-southern-economy-primarily-based-on-during-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/what-was-the-southern-economy-primarily-based-on-during-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"What was the Southern economy primarily based on during the Civil War?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[1646],"subject":[19,1611,12],"class_list":["post-8041","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-civil-war-the-economy","subject-history","subject-usa-history","subject-united-states-of-america"],"mcq_note":"<strong>The main industry in the South during the Civil War was agriculture, with cotton being the main crop.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nKnown as \"King Cotton,\" this cash crop was essential to the South's ability to trade with other countries, especially Britain and France, and to maintain economic stability. The South's reliance on cotton farming required the labor of enslaved people, further solidifying the system of slavery. Because of its emphasis on agriculture rather than industry, the South was more susceptible to attack throughout the war due to Union blockades that hampered cotton exports and other sources of income.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"Industry and manufacturing"},{"right":"yes","answer":"Agriculture, particularly cotton"},{"right":"no","answer":"Trade and commerce"},{"right":"no","answer":"Mining"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":19,"title":"History","slug":"history"},{"id":1611,"title":"History of the United States","slug":"usa-history"},{"id":12,"title":"United States of America","slug":"united-states-of-america"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":1646,"title":"Civil War &amp; the Economy","slug":"civil-war-the-economy"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/8041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=8041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}