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Divisions between North (Liberals) and South (Conservatives)
Economy of the North

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• Industrial Revolution: Introduction of the Machine − products were made
cheaper and faster − shift from skilled crafts people to less skilled laborers −
Economy BOOST!!! The North was more populated, wealthier, educated and
Canals and railroads allowed northern businesses to grow. The North believed in
hiring immigrants, women and children and paying lower wages.
Economy of the South

• Agriculture: Plantations and Slaves −White Southerners made living off the land
−Cotton Kingdom – Eli Whitney cotton made slavery more important, cotton
spread west, so slavery increases. The South was still dependent on the steamship.
Railroads existed, but far less than in The North. Most southerners lived on farms,
and enslaved Africans; Cotton became the most important crop after Ely Whitney’s
invention of the cotton gin. More slaves were now needed to pick the cotton.
Slavery became essential to the South’s economy, because The South believed
slaves were free labor to abuse and barely feed.

Among the 34 U.S. states in February 1861, seven Southern slave states
individually declared their secession from the U.S. to form the Confederate States

of America, or the South. The Confederacy grew to include eleven slave states.
The American Civil War was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to
1865. As a result of the long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in

April 1861, when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina,
shortly after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. The Civil War not
only cost money, but more than anything, it cost lives. The Civil War remains the
deadliest war in American history. The Civil War wasn’t a terrorist attack or a war

with another Country; it was a war between fellow Americans over racism.