Why Is The South Called The Pre-Civil War

The years 1820-1860 were known as the Pre-Civil War years, because the North and South were growing away from each other. They started to separate as the north became more industrialized and the South focusing more on agriculture. The industrialization of the North also affected relationships between management and labor forces. In contrast the South’s focus on agriculture, affected its social, political and economic life.
The North was converting into an industrialized, urbanized society. With the introduction of the textile mills, and the mass amount of immigration to the new cities that were forming. Because of the great amount of textile mills the need for workers was increasing. This then started a dispute between the Management and labor forces because of their disagreement over wages, length of working day, and their working conditions. Labor unions
The management wanted workers to work extremely long shifts in poor conditions such as cramped spaces and unventilated areas. The first labor group was the Knights of Labor that were formed in 1869, however their greatest strong point was between 1884 and 1885 where the railroad strikes flamed up but then settled. As the Knights of Labor became less popular at the end of 1885. The relationship between labor forces and management continued to go downhill when the American Federation of Labor or the AFL was started by Samuel Gompers in 1886. The AFL mainly focused on the issues regarding to the hours, wages, work conditions, and union recognition by management.
In contrast the South became more focused on agriculture because of the need for more cotton productions, due to the invention of the cotton gin and the North being able to produce clothing quicker with the water powered machines and textile mills. This issues all then led to the effects on the South’s social, economic and political life. In the South the social life with the north was growing due to the increased amount of railroads