United States History Question...?

Question

How did the social structure change more dramatically in the North than in the south in the decades before the civil war?

Answer 1

In a manfufacturing society, there are lots of levels and relationships that do not exist in farming society. For instance, people worked in factories instead of farms and homes.

That means you need public transportation to carry the masses.

People earned much more money in the north than in the south because you were paid by the hour, not by the crop.

People lived much closer together in the north in cities as opposed to spread out with smaller villages and lots of farms.

The entire infrastructure of police, jails, prison had to be much more involved in the north as the higher population densities promoted lots more crime.

Everything moved faster in the north, because in manufacturing societies people tend to live by the clock. In the south they lived by the sun. When it was daylight they worked, when it was dark they did something else.

In every walk of life, the pace was faster and there were more people and the lives were more intertwined and government had more of a hold.

Immigrants tended to live in areas where their own people lived, so you had Italian, Italian, Chinese, Polish, Scandanavian, Greek and many more sections of cities that tended to isolate themselves from the other sections.

At the same time, the theater arts were much more developed in the north because people would go to theaters for entertainment. There were different types of diversions. People tended to be less social with their neighbors. That meant that there were gangs and gang fights and community stress in many more ways than in the south.

Answer 2

Pennsylvania was founded on religious tolerance. Therefore, that state drew people regardless of nationality.

Industry's role was as a quick means for immigrants to find factory jobs. The Chinese and the Irish worked on the railroads long before the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad began. Many were still pushing westward, extending the frontier.

Answer 3

The north was more into manufacturing while the south was more agriculture based therefore a lot more different people of different cultures settled in the north.