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Differences Between North And South
How was life in the North different from the South LIfe in the North had a lot of differences than life in the South. They both had different economies, societies, geographies and transportation. For example, the North’s economy was based on working on industrial machines and the South’s economy was based on working on their farms and picking cotton out of their fields, those are two totally different economies. That shows how they both had different ways of living. Living life in the North was different from the South because they had different geographies, societies, economies, and different transportation. Transportation in the North and South was a lot different from each other. The North’s ways of traveling was by ship, train, horse

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