Compare and contrast the north and the south in the years leading up to the civil war

The North States was based on industrial. Large cotton textile industries were built to produce cloth, manufacturing Industry was of ironwork, production of weapons and Railways. The North was built with big cities, trading centre, roads, railways, canals. Society was more educational then religion.

The South was more of farms and plantations where the majority of the population lived. They practised slavery, Southern states were unified with the slavery issue as they were depended on it. The economy was based on agriculture, they grew cash crops. South was depended on the steamship. Education was only for the children of the planters not for the slaves.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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a variant spelling of the word dote (british)