Firstly, the Main Difference Was That the North Relied Much More on Money from Industry and Manufacturing, as They Had More Connections with Foreign Countries, and More Factories Were Built. in the North in 1860 There

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‘Between 1820 and 1860 there were fundamental differences between the economies of the north and the south’ How far do you agree with this view? In the years 1820 to 1860 there were fundamental differences between the economies of the north and the south. Firstly, the north was far more urban than the south; also the south was more rural than the north, strongly reliant on ‘King Cotton’ and slavery, whereas the north was far more industrial. Furthermore, the south relied more on exports whereas the north relied on internal markets. Despite this, there were some similarities to both economies. The main ones being that the south did actually have some industry, and that underneath the surface, both the north and the south were fundamentally rural. A fundamental difference between the economies of the north and the south was that the north was more urban. The north saw a much larger population of immigrants; this is because industrial expansion and urbanisation created jobs that attracted them to the north more than the south. Out of 5 million immigrants that arrived in America from 1815-1860, 1 in 6 chose to live in the north, compared to 1 in 30 in the south. Furthermore, the South’s economy was reliant on agriculture and that changed very little during the period of 1820 to 1860 with the percentage of labour in agriculture being 82% in 1800 only decreasing by 1% to 81% in 1860. In addition, in 1860 the Confederate States had 20 towns and only 1 in 14 were town dwellers in comparison to 1 in 4 people being town dwellers in the north. This shows a huge difference in the economies of the north and the south as the north was much more reliant on towns and the process of urbanisation, in relation to the south who were still reliant on agriculture as a main source for their economy. Firstly, the main difference was that the North relied much more on money from

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