I am not sure of the exact number,but the largest was the Tredegar Iron Works,which was on the James River in Richmond,Va.
The south did have factiories. When the "Cotton Gen" was created it increased the population of slavery making many factories.
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The south labored under several disadvantages. The south was outnumbered - there were 21 milion people in the northern states, and 5.5 million white southerners. 90% of the railroad tracks in the US were in the north. The south had no Navy. There were very few factories in the south. No factories that could make a railroad locomotive or an engine for a ship. Very few that could make rifles and pistols, and those that could were small and could not produce very many. There were only about two foundries in the south capable of casting cannon, and after February of 1862, only one, as Nashville, where the second was located, was captured by the Yankees. The south did manage to come up with some ships to make an effort at naval warfare, imported many weapons, captured and used many northern cannon. One of the great achievements of the south was starting from scratch to build a massive factory to make gunpowder, the Confederate Powder Works, in Augusta, Georgia. The south never lost a battle for lack of gunpowder.
Many of the first factories in the south were built to serve farmers needs by processing crops such as sugarcane.
The North, relative to the South.
The North, especially the Northeastern section, of the US had many factories pre-1900s. The South mostly had plantations. Both needed each other.
The North, or also known as the Union had more shipyards.Your Welcome
Not really, if it was a problem for anyone it would be the south in the end. The south at the end of the war would have virtually no factories for ammunitions, while the union had no problem getting ammunition because they had so many factories.
They haven't. Although there are very few children working (illegally) in factories in the more developed countries, there are tens of thousands of children working in textile and other factories in south Asia and southeast Asia, as well as parts of South America and Africa. The clothing which many people wear, here in the U.S. is made (unfortunately) with child labor from many of these overseas textile factories.
1.) The north didn't have much of a need for slaves because their land wasn't very fertile. 2.) As the century progressed, the north had factories and many immigrants working in the factories.