Which geographic feature led the North and South to develop different ways of life before the Civil War?
1. The North was far from the Mississippi River.
2. The North had a lot of rain that made it ideal for growing tropical plants.
3. The South had a lot of coal that made it ideal for textile mills.
4. The South had a warm climate and rich soil that was good for farming.

The correct answer is 4

The process of independence of the United States was caused by an enormous feeling of autonomy that established a union of all the colonies against the English intervention. Told in this way, we have the impression that the entire American population shares the same policies. However, we will see that this feeling of harmony does not take place in the 19th century.

After the independence process, like the economic elites of the North and the South, they will go through a series of agreements that will discuss the divergent political and economic interests of these two groups. The difference between North Americans and Southerners originated in the development process of each of these regions. While access to prosperity costs slave labor and exports of raw materials to Europe, the north favors wage labor and the articulation of powerful trade.

These different orientations ended up potentiating a confrontation that first manifested itself in the nation's fiscal, agricultural and labor policies. Northern interest was diametrically opposed to what southern political representatives saw as necessary for the development of their economy. A union that once transformed northerners and southerners into children of the same nation seems to fail using a path that does not seem to offer a middle ground.