The North vs.

South

During the first part of the 1800's the North and the South grew in different
ways. In the North, cities were centers of wealth and manufacturing. There were
many skilled workers. The North had large cities and used railroads for
transportation. The people who lived in the North were against slavery.
In the South most of the people were farmers. Money came from plantation
crops, like cotton, rice, sugar cane and tobacco. Slaves did most of the work on the
plantations. There were many small cities. The south had fewer railroads.
Transportation was less developed.
Problems began to arise between the North and the South because they had
trouble agreeing with each other. The North did not support slavery, or the forcing
of people to perform unpaid labor and to live in terrible conditions. The South
wanted to keep using slaves for labor and the North did not. Eventually, due to the
North and Souths differences in opinions, certain states that did not support slavery
became known as the Union. The Union was led by Abraham Lincoln. Those states that
supported slavery in the South became known as the Confederacy. The South was
led by Jefferson Davis. The differences in opinions amongst the states became so
strong that the Confederates wanted to win the war to separate from the Union and
keep their slaves. Thus, the Civil War began in 1861. Had the South or the
Confederacy won the Civil War, the United States and our ways of life today would
be a whole lot different!

FUN FACT: Pennsylvania was in the Union.

Did people who lived in Pennsylvania agree or disagree with slavery?