Why Is The South Better Than South

The North always had more than the South. They lived in the same country but did things differently. I believe that the North was more positive than the South. Most of this happened before the Civil War. In spite of everything, Northerners and Southerners had different social, economic and political cultures.

The Underground Railroad was an escape route for slaves in the South. Harriet Tubman, Northern abolitionists, and Quaker Thomas Garrett mainly helped in the assistance getting slaves to Northern states. The South especially did not like this. Most slaveholders actually offered $40,000 for the capture of Harriet Tubman. Since the South thought of this as a threat they decided their Fugitive Slave Law needed to be strengthen. The abolitionist movement was about getting emancipation for all slaves as quickly as possible and to also end segregation and racial discrimination. In 1833, the American
Anti-Slavery Society was founded. But, in 1840 the group split because of some disputes. Afterwards the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society was created but was ended in 1865 because Garrison and other supporters noticed that the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery made he society unnecessary. Most Northern towns had schools and churches. In the South, only plantation owners’ kids were allowed an education. Some kids in the South had no education or very little education.

The economy in the North and South were very different. In the North, the economy was based on manufacturing. In the South, the economy was based on agriculture. Slavery and cotton became essential to the South’s economy. The North was more populated than the South. The North had about 71% and the South had the other 29%. Same goes for factories, the North had more than the South. The North owned about 85% of the factories and the South owned the other 15%. The only thing that the South had more than the North were the farms. The North owned about 16% of the farms and the South owned about 84%. The majority of the farms in the South had slaves working on them.

In 1854 a bill was passed called the “Kansas-Nebraska Act” it was about whether settlers who owned a piece of land wanted to allow slavery.
Some conflict ascended between pro-slavery and anti-slavery pioneers. The aftermath of this conflict led to Bleeding Kansas. This bill became part of the political whirlwind that split 2 major political parties. This also worsened the relationship between the North and South. The Dred Scott case was about a man named Dred Scott who wanted to be emancipated. His reason was that he used to live in a free state with his owner but then they moved to Missouri, which is known as a slave state. The decision made during the case made abolitionists angry and made the tension between North and South more worse, eventually causing the Civil War 3 years later. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. When he was elected he was able to get several Southern states to break away before his inaugural ceremony. Abraham Lincoln did not like the captivity of slaves but the South did so they did not like Abraham
Lincoln.

Northerners and Southerners live in the same country but have different ways of living. The Underground Railroad was a way to get slaves out of slave states with the help of some people. The South did not like that so they tightened their system. Northerners were able to produce more in their many factories so they had a better economy than the South. Dred Scott was a slave who wanted to be emancipated and made tension between the two sides worse and years later caused the Civil War. If these events hadn’t occurred when they did we probably would be living in a slave country with war still occurring between the North and South.