The developing innovations and advancement of technology in the years preceding the onset of the Civil War augmented the differences between the North and the South. By the time of the Civil War, the North and the South developed entirely different economic systems. A difficultly that formed was the two very different societies that developed in America, one in the North, and the other in the South, which would adjust themselves to the industrial age in various ways. (Catton 1)

The nineteenth century was a time of significant economic revolution. The North was becoming highly industrialized; specifically, people were now making their source of revenue more from manufacturing, shipping and trade than from agricultural aspects such as farming. Factories now employed thousands of workers who made shoes, clothing, household goods, and other significant necessities, considered high quality. (Smith 28) With the demand of factory and transportation labor, it was not...