Question

1. choose the best answer. what did the term \king cotton\ imply? cotton made the south the wealthiest region in the world. cotton was the easiest of crops to grow and process. cotton growers were treated as royalty by impoverished southerners. the south was economically dependent on cotton. 2) choose the best answer. enslaved people working on cotton plantations produced about ____ of the world’s cotton supply. 75% 10% 50% 25%

Explanation:

1. The term "King Cotton" was used to describe the South's heavy economic reliance on cotton production before the Civil - War. Cotton was the major cash - crop and the backbone of the Southern economy, but the South was not the wealthiest region in the world. Cotton was not the easiest crop to grow and process, and cotton growers were not treated as royalty in the sense described.
2. Enslaved people working on cotton plantations in the American South produced about 75% of the world's cotton supply at the height of the plantation system.

Answer:

1. The South was economically dependent on cotton.
2. 75%