Economies: North VS South. The economies of the North and the South were totally different from each other. The North had alot of cities. They had more of an urban life. A lot of manufacturing and business occurred in the there. Sarah George Bagley was a mill worker and union activist. (An activist is someone working to change a perceived problem.) She advocated the 10-hour workday for private industry. (To advocate means to speak, plead, or argue in favor of something.) She was elected the president of the New England Working Men's Association, becoming the first woman to hold such a high rank in the American Labor Movement. She changed the working conditions for women. Now on too the South. The South had many plantations, which meant many slaves. The more the plantations and or the bigger the plantation, meant the more slaves "needed" to work. They lived side-by-side. Basically meaning they were very segregated. They produced a lot of cotton. Eli Whitney was a very successful business man. He was an American inventor who made the Cotton Gin. The Cotton Gin changed the cotton harvesting procedures and enabled large increases in cotton production. Each state that enters the North or the South, the economy depends on slaves. This was why the economies helped cause the Civil War. The North didint want slaves, but the South did, so it created an issue.