Seeing One Country as Two
At the turn of the 19th century the United States had accomplished a change in power without violence. The inauguration of Thomas Jefferson marked a time in history when things everywhere started to progress rapidly. The two dominant regions the North and South, looked like it would be bearable to work with each other and be able to discuss any problems with healthy debates. However as time progressed toward the 1860s, the North and South proved to differentiate among each other with few similarities. Economically, the North was based on manufacturing while the South was rural based. Socially, the North was generally anti-slavery while the South was pro-slavery. And lastly, politically, we see the return of the two party system. As for the comparisons, in the early nineteenth century, there was an explosion of economic, industrial and urban growth in most of the northern states. The development in the north was qualitative as well as quantitative growth, but growth in the southern states wasn't as dramatic, as it had more “intensive economic growth without any important changes in economic structures or techniques”, leading to the economic alienation of the southern states prior to the Civil War. Either way their growth was both naturally and rapidly. It is for these obvious and more important differences that we see at the end of the 1850s and the beginning of the 1860s such a divergence between these two regions which eventually lead to the civil war.
After the United States gained its independence it was heavily dependent on other countries for manufactured goods. However, this changed as the United States attempted to become more independent on manufactured goods. As they sought out to fix this issue, the North became predominantly a manufacturer of the goods with factories, while the South provided the factories with the raw materials