What were the cultural differences in the north and in the south?

Answer 1

The South cultivated a Plantation Society. A small handful of wealthy, slave-owning planters, controlled vast tracts of agricultural land and had to provide for the large workforce by making everything that the plantation required on the plantation itself. Plantations had to be mostly self-sufficient with their own blacksmiths, carpenters, and other crafts. The only major machinery was the cotton gin, which allowed the seed to be separated from the fiber quickly and easily, instead of relying on time-consuming separation by hand. A plantation may have had their own grist mill or distillery. The North was largely Industrialized. Most of the population lived in large cities and worked in factories. In the Midwest, the food was grown on small family farms, and the surplus sold to the cities, transported by rail, river, or canal to the population centers.

Answer 2

During the mid-19th century in the United States, the North and the South had significant cultural differences. The North was more industrialized and focused on commerce and manufacturing, while the South was mainly agrarian and reliant on slave labor for cotton production. The North had more diversified populations with immigrants from various countries, while the South had a predominantly white population and a stricter social hierarchy based on plantation ownership and slavery.