What are the similarities and differences between the north and the south US in the 1700s?

Answer 1

In the 1700s, the American regions of North and South demonstrated many of the same similarities and differences that would be characteristic in the 19th century. They were both primarily populated by persons of similar racial-ethnic descent; they shared similar convictions about independence or, at least, viable government; and they had a similar sense of distinctiveness as a culture in contrast with the Old World cultures. At the same time, the South was powerfully aristocratic and tradition-minded; it was also deepening its commitment to agriculture in cultural and commercial terms. In contrast, the North was far more innovative, increasingly industrialized and urban, and distinctively tending towards a stronger view of centralized government than that held by the state-centered Southerners.