The North and the South are very different and alike at the same time between 1800 and 1850. The differences between them caused them conflict on some issues. But what they have in common brought them closer together, because they weren't fighting over these issues. The North and the South varied greatly in their economies and daily life, but they also had some things in common in these areas too.
The North and South's economies are very different from each other, because they flourish from selling different things. The North had an industrial economy, which means that they made money by taking raw materials and turning them into manufactured goods in their factories. Where as the South had an agricultural economy, which means that they grew raw materials, like cotton, and sold them to factories. So as you can see this makes it where the North and the South's economies rely on other, because with out the South's raw materials the North would have to pay higher prices to get them from other countries. And without the North the South would have pay more to in shipping to get their raw goods to other countries to be sold.
Another difference between the North and South that pertains to both their economies and daily life is the issue of how they dealt with the amount of workers it would take to make their economies work. The North dealt with this hiring immigrants and young unwed women that would work for hardly nothing. The South dealt with this by using the descendants of slaves that their families had brought from Africa earlier. The North paying their workers with low wages caused their to be poverty and a high crime rate in the cities. The South using slavery caused their to be lots of conflict within themselves and between the North and the South, because they all thought that it was unethical to begin with. However the South didn't want to cut into their profits by paying the slaves, and overtime downplayed their thoughts of its unethicalness, because they...