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What is one way southern and northern societies differed in the 1800's?

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South depended on slavery and the north depended od industy was one way southern and northern societies differed in the 1800's
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By far the greatest way in which southern and northern societies differed in the 1800's in the United States was that the South was completely agrarian and depended heavily on slaves, and the North was more merchant-based and had practically no slave labor. 
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