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North v South: Dawn of the 1800's (South (Little incentive to…

- - - - Cash crops did not grow well in the Northern
        soil and climate.
        
        Smaller farms
        
        As cities grew, farmers in the Old Northwest discovered that they could raise one or two types of crops or livestock (corn and cattle, for example), and sell what they produced at city markets.
        
        The National Road was completed in 1838 which connected states by highways
        
        Missouri Comprise: Maine as a free state
        
        By 1804, almost all Northern states voluntarily abolished slavery.
        
        The North had not eliminated agriculture. However, the type of land and the growth of cities in the North encouraged farmers to cultivate smaller farms than Southerners did, and to grow crops
        that did not require much labor to flourish.
        
        North, an efficient machine for cleaning the seeds from short-staple cotton proved a major breakthrough.
- - - - Missouri Compromise: Missouri as a Slave State