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Question
Briefly explain the differences between the northern and southern states of the America Union.
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Solution
Difference between northern and southern states:
- The northern states developed as manufacturing and shipping centers. Whereas the southern states developed great plantation industries, the most important being the cotton growing industry.
- The industrialized northern states did not need slave labour in their industries and on the whole did not approve of slavery whole as the southern states on the other hand I claimed that they needed slaves for their cotton and sugar plantations.
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