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I'm asuming your talking about the Civil war. The south had a bigger fighting population, and relied mostly on plantations and their 'workers' to supply it with basic goods. The north had more factories and produced more goods for trade.

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-Self governed

-Economy was dependent on tobacco in Maryland and Virginia

-Rice in South Carolina and Georgia

-Tobacco and rice plantations were very dependent on slave labor

-Commerce was slow to develop in these Colonies

-London merchants managed the Southern trade

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the north was based on hunting and fishing and trapping also they traded with the south using manufactured goods

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Agriculture, as in most places was just fine. Thank you for asking.

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The southern American colonies had an economy based on agriculture. The climate and soil of the southern colonies were ideal for growing cotton and tobacco.

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