Economic Differences Between North And South

The North and South continued to grow apart economically. The Jeffersonians would pushed for an Agricultural economic expansion. Southern plantations utilized slave labor to grow their agricultural industry whereas the Northern artisans and farmers believed in the fruit of their own labor.

Sectional differences between the North and the South have caused the two regions to disagree on multiple issues since the establishment of the United States. The North’s economy was primarily based on industry, while the South’s economy was primarily based on agriculture, which greatly changed the two section’s desire and need for slaves. When the United States began annexing new territory, disputes over the expansion of slavery became prominent. In the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Missouri was added to the Union as a slave state while Maine was added as a free state in order to maintain the balance between slave and free states, and slavery was prevented from extending above the 36th parallel line. In order to follow the guidelines of the Missouri Compromise, Southerners looked westward in order to expand slavery. Southerners supported the extension of slavery into western territories because it allowed them to use free labor to harvest cotton and other crops, and the addition of new slave states would strengthen the South in the House of Representatives, because more states would vote for policies that favored slaveholders. Northerners were against the expansion of slavery into Western territories because they believed slave labor undermined free white labor and took away job opportunities, and would disrupt the balance between free and slave states. Controversy over the expansion of slavery into western territories between the years of 1845-1861 contributed to the

Economically, the chief and immediate cause of the war was slavery. Southern states, including the 11 states that formed the Confederacy, depended on slavery to support their economy. The North used a factory system for their agriculture, which they hired cheap

Throughout history, there have been many geographic differences between the North and the South that have lead to economic differences between them. Some of these differences, such as the climate differences, have had many effects on the economy in these to regions.

The South heavily relied on slavery to keep their economy stable, although not their only source of money, but by abolishing slavery and making it illegal it would damage their economy quite badly. And so this caused a lot of tension between the North and South because they were very different economically. The South is much more agricultural, and is reliant upon exports as well. The North on the other hand is in complete contrast to the South. The North industrialised very fast and many people of poor background and some African-American succeeded and made a lot of money. It isn't very clear that if they had lived in the South if they could have achieved this much success, but those in the North faced a lot less discrimination compared to the South. "Because the economics of the dynamic industrializing North and the static agrarian South were incompatible, the two societies were on a collision course that led inexorably to war" (http://civilwartalk.com/threads/historians-evolving-views-of-civil-war-causality.21223/) Many historians agree that this was not a major cause. According to economic historian Lee A. Craig, "In fact, numerous studies by economic historians over the past several decades reveal that economic conflict was not an inherent condition of North-South

The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history. America was split into two sides that had strengths and weaknesses against each other. It seemed they were the complete opposite. The North had more factories and railroads, while the South had more farms. Politics had a strong part to play too. The North had a better government, while the South struggled to form one. Finally, the North had a larger army throughout the war.

Slavery was the main cause of the Civil War. The economies of the North and the South were very different. The South relied heavily on the plantations, factories and slaves for their incomes while the north relied more on its ports and trading for their economy. When the north wanted to end slavery, the south saw it as the north destroying their

The difference between the North and South’s economy varied greatly. The South had a mainly agricultural economy while the North mainly focused on an industrial economy. It can be seen on the pi charts of the North and South’s economy that the North was more prosperous with their economy do to that fact that one and a half trillion dollars of manufactured goods were produced in the North while only one hundred fifty-five million dollars were produced in the South (Doc 2). The South made most of their money from crops but most importantly cotton. South was the top producer in cotton and it was a very popular crop to buy. The difference in economy between the North and South took a toll on the relationship between them. The difference in economies was a tension that was one event that led to the civil

One of the main differences of the economy were the railroads. The North had more railroads than the South because they used the railroads to transport medicines,soldiers,clothes,utilities,weapons, and foods during the war. In Document 1, the top map shows how the north had railroads going from different states and extending more. While, the South had a few railroads. In Document 2, the North’s railroad mileage was better since they did rely mostly on public transportation than the south did. Another difference was that the North was based on industrialization while the South was based on agriculture. In Document 1, the map on the bottom shows that the south’s main production was cotton. In Document 2, the graphs show that the North had 73% more population than the South who only had 27% of the population. The south had 88% more of slaves while the North had only had 12% of slaves. The North 1,300,000 industrial workers while the south only had 110.00 industrial workers. The North’s value of manufacturing goods yearly was over the south’s yearly value. The south instead relied on produce such as cotton while the north did not. Both used corn but the north produced it more than the south. These events caused the civil war to start because both had different economic

During the first half of the 19th century, there were a variety of issues that caused social and economic differences between the North and the South. Among the variety were the issues of tariffs, immigration and slavery. All of these differences between the two sides just piled on top of one another to form into a huge conflict to fuel the growing crisis that was already brewing between the North and South.

Slavery was merely one of the causes of the Civil War. Some historians argue that the political difference between the North and the South is a more influential cause of the Civil War while some insist that economic is the main cause. In fact, the political division between the North and the South was affected by the differences in the economic system of both. The North and the South had had different economic backgrounds that were established since the American colonial period. These economic differences from the colonial period brought about the political division that was based on preserving each other’s own wealth or property and eventually caused the Civil War.

The south was being forced to produce products and raw materials specifically for the north at discounted and heavily taxed rates. The south could make more money selling to foreign countries but they were forced to sell to the north. They were getting no representation in congress to halt the imbalance of power and it forced them into an agricultural/economic depression. Slavery had nothing to do with the start of the war. Remember this... Slavery became an issue in Sept 1862 when Lincoln signed to free the slaves in the south to punish us for continuing to fight. We, as southerners, were fighting for independence from an imbalanced and tyrannical government. States rights and representation were the reasons for the war. Union troops weren't fighting for slaves. They were fighting to preserve the nation and to continue receiving cheap raw materials for their factories. It was economic, not

The civil war was based on mostly greed on the south's part the north's was more morally driven seeing that what the south was doing to people was inhumane. Yes the north was making huge profits from the southern plantations owners but i think that says a lot about north that although they were making money of the salves just like the south they still saw that it was not right what they where doing to the

The north was different from the south in many ways because their geography,society,and transportation were different from each other.They had different kind of weathers and different kind of people living there.

During the Antebellum period the south was pretty different from the north. In the south most were supporters of the Democrats. Many of them believed in slavery and wanted a small, state run government. Unlike the whig party, which wanted a government that could intervene and help the economy when necessary, they did not want the goernment to intervene in state matters. They wanted individual rights and mainly didn't want the government intervening when it came to slavery because their economy depended on it.