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Q: Why did southerners build Few mills and factories in the south?
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Which industries developed in the north and in the south?

The north had factories and textile mills. The south had industrial scale cash-crop agriculture.


Who were southerners who felt that factories would revive the economy of the upper south?

William Gregg and Joseph Ried Anderson


Why did the southerners oppose the tariff?

Because the southerners had built few factories and didn't benefit from the tariff. Southerners bought many British goods and the tariff drove up the price. The southerners complained that the tariff made northern manufacturers rich at the expense of the South.


Who were two southerners who felt that factories would revive the economy of the upper south?

William Gregg and Joseph Ried Anderson


Why were some Southerners against tariffs?

Because the southerners had built few factories and didn't benefit from the tariff. Southerners bought many British goods and the tariff drove up the price. The southerners complained that the tariff made northern manufacturers rich at the expense of the South.


How did the north an south get income before the civil war?

North had factories, mills, large industrial plants, the support of the union government. South had only cotton and timber.


Why did the south build fewer canals railroads and factories than the rest of the country in the 1800s?

They were lazy.


Did the south have more resources then the north?

No, the resources of the South were only crops, no factories, no munitions, no mills. The South has plantations and some cattle, cotton and some timber, but nothing for help during time of war.


Why did the north have finanicial advantages over the south?

The South had no factories, no munitions. no mills for warm clothes or shoes, no financial support for cash for articles of war or food, none of these necessary requirements of which the union had plenty.


Why was south so much less industrial than the north?

Because in the south agriculture and farming were the major industries, while as in the north it was factories. The farming way of life in the south and southerners wanting to hold on to that life was one of the causes to the civil war.


Did north and south both have power mills during the civil war?

During the American Civil War, both the north and the south possessed manufacturing factories that could have been classified as "power mills". However, the North had a substantial amount more, and would become the major manufacturing center of the country.


What were the strengths of the north and of the south?

the difficulty of the civil war was that the people fought as hard as they could. They risked their lives fighting. The north had more people, factories and railroads. Southerners were fighting to protect their lands.