Industrial= Diverse 1. Textiles 2. Sailors 3. Coal 4. Miners In the early 1800s, the North began to move away from an agricultural economy and more towards an industrial based economy. Starting the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s. The South would grow it and the North would produce it. Factories grew and immigrants from other countries came to the United States looking for a new beginning. This economy allowed for people who had nothing to become more successful and gave more diverse groups political power. The North had an ever evolving economy unlike the South.
Southern Economy
Agricultural=Cash Crops 1.Cotton 2. Tobacco 3. Rice 4. Indigo Dependent on slave labor for production. The South agricultural economy left little room to diversify. With this economy only about 10% of its white, male citizens owned large plantations that were successful. And in southern society at the time, wealth= political power.