Discuss the ways in which the northern and southern economies and social customs differed in the decade prior to the civil war. why are they characterized as having “two distinct societies”?

The economies of the "southern and northern" were different a decade before the civil war began

Explanation:

The northern economy got influenced highly through industrialization. The northern cities concentrated on the "production of manufactured goods". This occurred because of the new organization as well as the technological advancement that happened in the "nineteenth  century".

The southern economy was influenced profoundly by cash crops and cotton. During this period, cotton was the hotbed of invention, and it increased the plantation profit. Because of this, the southern economy did not have transport networks, and it was complicated than that of the north.

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