How did environmental and geographic factors affect the development of sectional economies and identities?

Because the South had better farmland, their economy was based off of agriculture and slave labor. The North, however, did not have good farmland but had a multitude of power sources that helped create the factory system that their economy was based off of.

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the correct answer is: (1) affected by gerrymandering; (2) not affected by gerrymandering.

gerrymandering is known as a practice that intends to establish a some kind of political advantage for a particular party or group. to do this district boundaries are manipulated. the new resulting district is named a gerrymandering.

in other words, what gerrymandering does is to draw the boundaries of electoral districts trying to benefit the party who is doing it. sometimes, the party controlling the legislature will redraw it so they can maximize the number of districts they are likely to control.