Question

Why was the market for manufactured goods in the South smaller than that in the North? How did this affect the development of industry in the South?

Answer 1

Southern cities were small because they failed to develop diversified economies.

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Answer 2

Southern cities were small because they failed to develop diversified economies. ... In 1860 the North had approximately 1.3 million industrial workers, whereas the South had 110,000, and northern factories manufactured nine-tenths of the industrial goods produced in the United States.