HIST 2110Y Study Guide - Final Guide: Wage Slavery, Endangerment, Sharecropping
26 Feb 2016
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Economic and social differences between the north and the south. There was an increase in plantations due to the invention of the cotton gin. The southern economy became a one crop economy, depending on cotton and slavery (cheap labour, aka selling cotton cheaper) The northern economy was based on industry instead of agriculture, they purchased raw cotton and turned it into finished goods. This disparity between the two set up a major different in economic attitudes. In the north society evolved as people of different cultures and classes had to work together, while the south continued to hold onto an antiquated social order. Many felt that the new constitution ignored the rights of states to continue to act independently, they felt that the states should still have the right to decide if they were willing to accept certain federal acts.
