Coal and iron deposits in the southern | The sparse population of the West did not support much industrial growth, and the economy continued to be based on natural resources. | Economic growth in both farming and manufacturing. | Population Change | There was a high population.By 1870 about 15 percent of the U.S. population was foreign born. | Many Africans Americans left to work in the North and Midwest because of the problems with race. |
When the cotton gin was invented in 1793, cotton came to be very lucrative. This machine had the ability to decrease the time taken to separate seeds from the cotton. However, with the number of the plantations willing to change from growing other crops to cotton increasing, there was a greater need for a large amount of cheap labor which was achieved through slavery. This resulted in the Southern economy developing a one crop economy, which depended on cotton and consequently on slavery. In contrast to the South, the Northern economy was centered more on manufacturing than farming.
The North had a larger population than the South because of all of its immigrants. Immigrants went to the North because it was easier to make a living there. In the South, who your ancestors were had everything to do with your social status; whereas, in the North you could rise and fall on the social ladder depending on what you did in your life. Another reason that immigrants went to the North was because the North had more factories and job opportunities than the South. An additional cause of secession was economic differences, the most important of which was the Tariff of Abominations, an immediate cause.
How far does the North-South divide explain the weaknesses of the liberal state in the years 1896-1914? The North-South divide in Italy was the economic and political split evident, and questionably still evident today within Italy. Northern Italy was dominated by a rapidly-developing and a capitalistic economy, whilst Southern Italy was far less advanced and more based on agriculture. The significance of the divide in relation to what extent it accounts for the weaknesses of the liberal state is subjective to not only the divide itself, but along with other factors which also effected the stability of the state. These factors include weaknesses in politics, international reputation, national unity and culture.
For example, Mexico and Peru who had incorporated slaves as primary agricultural labor force had a less common slavery rate than Portugal/Spain did in Cuba and Portugal in Brazil. Main reasons included the gold and silver mining were abundant around this two empires; also agricultural surplus were massive than tropical export agricultural found in Brazil at the time before African slaves arrived to brazil. In addition, commercial political regulation and troublesome fleet system limited access to European consumers and additional potential profits. Concisely, african slave trade provided labor power that develop plantations around the Equatorial region and Caribbean. In order areas it was a supplement to labor for a declining indigenous population.
Both the upper and lower classes were changed and they both had different experiences. Economic theories were developed as a direct effect of the revolution, economic theories such as capitalism and communism. Each theory benefited different social classes and each theory had its flaws. The industrial revolution caused the growth of cities to skyrocket. The majority of people in Europe lived in rural areas before the revolution and after the majority of people lived in urban areas.
Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607–1692 1. Why was family life in New England so different from family life in the South? the family life in new England was drastically different then the south because of the way the geography made the climate, in the north it was much colder in the winters and stayed colder a lot longer, this made slavery less useful because there was less time to farm for crops, and the soil was much more fertile then the north, in the south it was hot and humid 85% of the time, it made plantations thrive and the economy to boom, at the price of putting more strain on the slaves. 2. Why did slavery grow to be such an important institution in colonial America?
In Chapter 10 of Guns, Germs and Steel, Diamond explains the reasons in which the spread of food production and agricultural innovation were different in each continent and why this impacted the societies of each continent. Diamond explains how the Americas and Africa are longer north and south than east and west, while Eurasia is larger east to west. Diamond explains that this is the reason in which the spread of agricultural innovation was different for each continent. Diamond says that because Eurasia is more east and west orientated with few geographic barriers between the east and west, agricultural innovation spread more quickly than in other continents. Diamond also explains that it was because agricultural innovation in Eurasia spread
Needless to say, southern slave owners were not willing to abolish slavery because of the money they stood to lose. The North, on the other hand, was experiencing an industrial revolution. This area of the United States had five times more factories than the South. However, unlike the South, work in these northern factories was carried out by immigrants. Since the North controlled the majority
Treatment of African Americans as second class citizens was still bad regarding economics in the north, but not as severe as in the south. For example, a mass migration of brought two million blacks to northern cities to seek out better economic opportunities. Also, unemployment in the north fell from almost one million to around 150000 by 1945. This was due to the creation of jobs in factories during World War 2, when it became easier for blacks to get jobs (although not as easy as it was for whites). In the