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on manufacturing products and

agriculture was limited to small-

scale farms. Only a small minority

in the northern side focused on

farming. In contrast, the southern

side was mainly focused on farming.

Their system was based on farming

crops, especially cotton and tobacco, As the North started to oppose

which were grown by black slaves. slavery, the South started to fear

They were the essence of these that their economy would degrade.

farms because these slaves were They thought that if slavery was

forced to produce more products to be abolished, there would be

even though they were tired. nobody else to work on farms. After

arguments started to get heated,