Which of the following statements is FALSE?

A. Southerners feared Northerners would come to the South to build factories and take money away
from their economy.

B. Before the Civil War, Southern states wanted to keep more power with the state government than
with the federal government.

C. Southerners felt their way of life would be in jeopardy if new territories became free states.

D. Southern states needed slavery to remain legal to keep cotton plantations functioning and
prospering in the decades leading up to the Civil War.