2. Differences between the North
and the South
• North: 21 million people, much industry
• big industrial projection; not much slavery
• got many new immigrants
• industrial production of New York is
almost four times greater than the
production in the South
3. • South: there lived over 9 million people,
but 4 million slaves
• not much industry, only agriculture, mainly
cotton & tobacco plantations
• they needed slaves, they did the work on the
plantations
• most people are conservative
4.
5. Problems between the North and
the South
• people in the North are against slavery
• in the South they need the slaves
• presidential election 1860
• the sovereignty of the Southstates was
limited
• they resigned from the Union
6.
7. Drain at the end of the war
• after presidential election 6 states left the
United States
• established confederation
• attacked military centres of the United
States in the South
• the North won, over 650,000 people died
8. After the war
• 1865 Lincoln was killed by a man from the
South
• incredible damage in the South
• hate between the North and the South
• 10 years to integrate the Southern States
into the Union
