Question

How did many southerners view the North in the mid-1800s?

Southerners wanted people in the South to have the same equality as people in the North.


People in the South disliked the fact that the northern economy was based on slave labor.


Southerners thought that northern cities and industry bred poverty and inequality.


Southerners thought that the North's wage labor system would be good for the South.

Answer 1

Southerners in the mid-1800s viewed the North as a region where cities and industry fostered poverty and inequality, contrasting with their dependence on a slave-based economy.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the mid-1800s, southerners viewed the North with a degree of mistrust and concern, believing that northern cities and industry bred poverty and inequality. This perspective was based on the northern support for a free labor system, which contrasted sharply with the southern slave-based economy. Northerners heralded free labor as the path to social mobility and economic growth, applauding the values of hard work and frugality, which they felt were undermined by slavery. In contrast, southerners were concerned that the northern wage labor system was detrimental to social standings and that it would not be advantageous to southern society, where slavery was integral to the economy and social structure.

Answer 2

Southerners thought that northern cities and industry bred poverty and inequality.

Step-by-step explanation:

• In the mid-1800s and early nineteenth century, the northern and southern regions of the United States struggled to find a mutually acceptable solution to the problem of slavery.
• Southerners claimed that slave people were healthy and happy. Some have argued that free labor systems in the North hurt society more than slavery.
• Many Nathars believed that slavery was morally wrong. They restricted the rights of free and enslaved African Americans, which prevented immigration to the North, but many in the South believed that God intended for blacks to provide labor for a "civilized" society.