The Black Belt was

A) the area where most blacks were settled.

B) an area of dark, rotted limestone soil that was excellent for cotton.

C) a burned-over region in upstate New York.

D) the dark swamps of southern Georgia and northern Florida.

E) the tobacco-growing region of central Georgia.

The correct answer is this one: "B) an area of dark, rotted limestone soil that was excellent for cotton." The Black Belt was the area that was historically important as the nation's main cotton producer in the mid-1800s. It is a region of the U. S. state of Alabama where the region is rich in black topsoil.