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In the first half of the 1800s, what resulted from the debates about the cotton economy described in the excerpt?​

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Answer: The South totally depended on its slaves to run its rural, agricultural economy, while the North had factories and machines in which paid workers worked. There was a huge difference between the two regions, and they did not agree with one another in many things. The biggest one, however, was the issue of slavery. The South needed their slaves, but the North absolutely hated the idea. The two regions were always fighting. Unless the North would’ve made a concentrated effort to push the South toward a more industrialized region, war could not have been prevented. They needed to fight it out and somehow come to a conclusion… Since the South was so set on keeping its slaves, I hardly doubt that simple compromise or political debate could’ve ended slavery without war.

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A distinct Southern economic and cultural identity emerged.

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