Industrialization was essentially the catalyst for most of the major changes in the late 1700s to the late 1800s. The process of manufacturing and transporting goods became more efficient as technology developed. Some examples being the textile mill, cotton gin, railroads, and steamboats. These technologies changed how people worked, mainly with the increase of factories in the North and the heavy focus on cotton in the South. As industrialization progressed in the North, slavery increased in the South. The North wanted to produce its own goods, and the South wanted to import goods. Consequently, the differing dependencies of the North and South caused tension to build, mainly in relation to slavery, central power, and production of
