A) Briefly explain ONE factor that contributed to the lack of manufacturing in the South during the first half of the 19th century

B) Briefly explain ONE advantage the North had over the South in developing

manufacturing during the first half of the 19th century

A) The ONE factor causing the lack of manufacturing in the South during the first half of the 19th century was the South's over-reliance on agriculture powered by slave labor.

The South relied on owning large plantations for agricultural production, unlike the North.  In the North,  artisans and merchants drove its industrialization.

B) The ONE advantage that the North had over the South that helped it to develop manufacturing during the first half of the 19th century was that it had a free-labor and factory-based economy. This economic system was bolstered by industrialization.

Thus, the economy of the North was not dependent on agriculture and slave labor, enabling the North to develop manufacturing, which processed agricultural products and other natural resources into refined goods.

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The correct answers to these open questions are the following.

A) Briefly explain ONE factor that contributed to the lack of manufacturing in the South during the first half of the 19th century.

One of the factors that contributed to the lack of manufacturing in the South during the first half of the 1800s was that southern people had invested too much in large plantations and buying large numbers of slaves to work on the farm fields producing the kinds of cash crops that were needed to trade and be exported to Europe.

Southern landlords exploited slaves and depended so much on slavery to have good crops.

B) Briefly explain ONE advantage the North had over the South in developing manufacturing during the first half of the 19th century.

The great advantage that the North had over the South was that industries and factories produced goods that facilitated life in the North offered many jobs to people and produced technological advances nonexistent in the South.

These advantages were more notorious during the American Civil War in that northern industries produces weaponry, machines, and supplies that benefited the Union Army over the Confederate Army.