One similarity the industrial revolution had on both the north and south was the impact inventions had on the region and the people. People in both regions were impacted in some way by the inventions. The cotton gin revolutionized cotton growing in the south. It made cotton the main export of the south by 1860.

The issue of slavery caused tension between the North and the South. Abolitionists believed that slavery was unjust and should be abolished immediately. Many Northerners who opposed slavery took a less extreme position. Some Northern workers and immigrants opposed slavery because it was an economic threat to them.

The North wanted the new states to be “free states.” Most northerners thought that slavery was wrong and many northern states had outlawed slavery. The South, however, wanted the new states to be “slave states.” Cotton, rice, and tobacco were very hard on the southern soil.

The economies of both sides relied heavily on farming, and both used similar methods to work the land. Although the North experienced far more industrialization, farming factored just as heavily into its economy as in the South.

SIMILARITIES

• They were known as the Union.
• They wanted to abolish slavery.
• The North had a big army which included many black soldiers.
• They had lots of good equipment to fight with.
• Instead of cash crops, they had more factories.
• They wanted to weaken the south before attacking.
• They had advanced railroads.

They were both dominated by men. Explanation: While South revolved around agriculture, North revolved more around industrial gods. South had more slaves and based its production on slaves.

The geography of the north and the south set up two very different societies, which was one of the major factors that led to the outcome of the Civil War. Although the south is somewhat like the north, it has many different features. Climate – colds winters; hot/humid summers, there winters were long cold and snowy.

The North had an industrial economy, an economy focused on manufacturing, while the South had an agricultural economy, an economy focused on farming. Slaves worked on Southern plantations to farm crops, and Northerners would buy these crops to produce goods that they could sell.

The main reason that they each feared each other’s influence on national affairs is that each of the sections of the country had different needs. For example, a major issue arose over the Tariff of 1828. The South needed imports and exports while the North wanted its industries to be protected from foreign competition.

Therefore, the increasing sectionalism as driven by the competing economies of the North and South allowed for southerners to unify against the North more easily. Therefore, it was due to the effects of political life that originated from sectionalism that the Civil War began.

The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion.

State rights – The leaders in the South wanted the states to make most of their own laws. In the North, people wanted a stronger national government that would make the same laws for all the states. Slavery – Most of the Southern states had economies based on farming and felt they needed slave labor to help them farm.