Why did industries in the South grow more slowly than in the North?

Answer 1

The North had more of a social and economic mix.

Answer 2

The southern states wanted and used more manual labor. They were better at agriculture than the Northern states, and they depended on slaves. Southern states had larger-scale farms, where the northern states had smaller-scale farms. The North was more industry-based, and the South was agriculture-based.

Answer 3

The south was not slow to industrialize, they had repaired and industrialized themselves over a matter of a couple of years. Railroads and ships played a big role in the industrialization of the "New South"

Answer 4

1.) the boom in cotton sales( cotton was very profitable)

2.) lack of capital (investment money planters would have to sell slaves or land to get the money)

3.) market for manufactured goods was small (the population made up of slaves had no money to buy merchandise)

4.) southerners did not want industry

5.) the south depended on slaves and agriculture

Answer 5

Even as late as the late 1800's the devastation of the South due to the Civil War had lasting affects.

There was still bitterness over the war and the reconstruction acts that followed the defeat of the Confederacy.

Companies fueling the economic booms in the North & the West coast, found those areas better places for investment than the old South.

Answer 6

The Southern loss for their bid for independence was a costly one. Although the South spent less money on the war, about $1 billion, the small population there extracted a high price. It came in terms of economics, a $111 on a per capita basis. Over 95% of all the US Civil War battles were fought on Southern territory. Whether on purpose as per Union Generals Grant and Sherman, or due to collateral damage from the battles themselves placed the South in a deep hole after the war. In contrast, the Northern states had no such problem.

For the most part, the South's economy was based on agriculture, especially on cotton. While this of course was almost totally destroyed there was another problem. Almost one half of its livestock as well as farm machinery would stall the South's recovery. Once again, no such problems in the North.

Since the major large plantation workforce had been done by slaves, the end of this horrible institution left the working man's situation in shambles. Many slaves moved North and the ones who stayed were without a "home" in a manner of speaking.

As one devastating example of why the North could move on, open the West and take advantage of new industrial technology, this did not happen in the South. The devastating example was that by the year 1900, the South's agricultural production had only reached 75% of its 1860 production.

According to various studies, the Northern workers had twice as much wealth as their Southern counterparts.

Answer 7

Southern states were a society based on the plantation system and slavery. The plantation was isolated and neighbors were several miles away. There were a few major cities, but these were centered on the shipping of cotton, rice, and other products. The north was the complete opposite of the south. They had a manufacturing base and large cities . The seaports were busy with goods and people coming into the colonies. All of this pushed the north in a different direction than the south from the very start of the colonies.

Answer 8

industry was slow to catch on in the south beause the properties werent known very well

Answer 9

because the south is just like that

Answer 10

The North had more of a social economic mix....Apex 100%