It was during the early parts of the 1800s that the North and South began to split into different directions. The North relied heavily on manufacturing while the South relied on its agriculture and farming. These two differences in producing goods led to the separation in values and cultures that would divide a nation. It would take a civil war raging throughout the nation to conclude the longstanding separation between the two. The North and South were two different cultures in the same country. In the North, the soil and climate did not favor large farmlands and plantations, and so they relied heavily on industry. Factories were set up making textiles from cotton from the South. Slavery had died out because many immigrants came from Europe to work in the factories. Irish, German, and other Europeans settling in the North led to a huge population boost between 1800 and 1860. There were many skilled workers and the large urban cities were centers of wealth. Both religion and education were organized and there were schools and churches in most towns. Very few boys and almost no girls continued on to secondary school and a college education was reserved for the wealthy. They were more likely to have careers in business, medicine and education. The culture of the North was determined by life in the cities. The South’s soil and climate was ideal for agriculture and growing crops. There were very few large cities and most southerners lived on small farms. Large plantations were owned by the wealthy. Most of the population was made up of Europeans from England and Scotland. One third of the South’s population were African slaves. Cotton became the most important crop after the cotton gin was invented. More slaves were needed to pick cotton and slavery became essential to the South’s economy. It was plantation owners and their families that the culture of the South would be based on. It was only the children of plantation owners that would receive an education while small farmers had no or little education. Plantation life drove the culture of the South. The North and South had different cultures, lives, and ideals even though they were a part of the same nation. It wasn’t necessarily slavery the created the differences between the two, but the climate/soil and means for improving the economy in each region. Manufacturing had made the North larger, wealthier, and better educated which led to better careers. The manufacturing utilized the immigrants from Europe, which made no need for the North to have slavery. The South’s culture, education and future was determined by plantation life. Their economy flourished and thrived on the use of slaves. It is for this reason they wouldn’t have ever abolished slavery on their own. To this day the South has not recovered economically from the Civil War and the banning of slavery. The fundamental differences between the two regions were integral for the growth of our country. If it weren’t for these differences, there may be, today, a group of human beings that are enslaved by another.