's grew in the South. "Southerners attributed the backwardness of their own section to Northern aggrandisement" [Berkley: 79:] The southern people, already bitter, grew to resent the large profits amassed by the North from marketing the cotton crop.
             After the war, many states were consequently left ruined and unstable.
             The occupation of the majority of Southerners remained farming,
             "60% of American's still lived in rural communities of less than 2,500," [Nevins: 42:1965]
             The North, however focused on industry - "a 'high capital' economy based on investment in equipment intensive manufacturing plants kept competitive by protective tariffs" [findout:81: 1976.] New England and the Middle Atlantic states were the main centres of manufacturing, commerce, finance, machinery, woollen goods, leather, clothing, textiles and lumber, hence "Vessels flying the American flag plied the seven seas, distributing their wares" [Cantwell:21:1994]
             Thus the North was prosperous before the Civil War with many different sources of wealth.
             Zinn states in 'A People's History of the United States' that "in 1860, the North had 1.3 million industrial workers; the South had only 110,000."[ 95:1980] The North's superiority economically is also supported by Monroe in 'The South: A Central Theme?' in which s
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