North And South Differ

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Northern Politics

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believed in a strong federal government; had abolished slavery (1778-1830); that all people should be free
Far more Northerners belonged to the Whig/Republican political party and they were far more likely to have careers in business, medicine, or education

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Northern economics

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industrial and highly urbanized; fueled by more abundant natural resources than in the South.

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Northern Culture

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Northern soil and climate favored smaller farmsteads rather than large plantations.
Industry flourished, and many large cities were established.
Slavery had died out, replaced in the cities and factories by immigrant labor from Europe
The majority of immigrants 7 out of 8, settled in the North rather than the South.

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Southern Culture

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-very limited social structure, similar incomes and if you had money, all you had to do was buy slaves, sit back and relax.
-ingrained heirarchies
Racism underlying force in white southern society

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Southern Economy

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Because agriculture was so profitable few Southerners saw a need for industrial development. Eighty percent of the labor force worked on the farm. Although 2/3 of Southerners owned no slaves at all, by 1860 slavery was inextricably tied to the region's economy and culture. In fact, there were almost as many blacks in the South as there were whites (4 million blacks and 5.5 million whites). There were no large cities aside from New Orleans, and most of the ones that did exist were located on rivers and coasts as shipping ports to send agricultural produce to European or Northern destinations.

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Why do you think the South stopped questioning the validity of slavery as an institution after the 1830s?

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-they argued that it was a beneficial institution that created a hierarchical society superior to the leveling democracy of the North.
-They looked at the urban cities in the north and believed that wage slavery was worse than their form of slavery because "at least they provided for their slaves in sickness and old age"
-they drew on new theories of racial inferiority, even theory claimed that Africans and whites were separate species.