Compare and contrast the north and the south in the years leading up to the civil war

The North States was based on industrial. Large cotton textile industries were built to produce cloth, manufacturing Industry was of ironwork, production of weapons and Railways. The North was built with big cities, trading centre, roads, railways, canals. Society was more educational then religion.

The South was more of farms and plantations where the majority of the population lived. They practised slavery, Southern states were unified with the slavery issue as they were depended on it. The economy was based on agriculture, they grew cash crops. South was depended on the steamship. Education was only for the children of the planters not for the slaves.

swe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. "

- declaration of independence

  according to this passage from the declaration of independence, who gives government the power to exist?

a) the king

b) the people

c) their creator

d) their governmenthook

hi!

your answer is b

hope this !

~courtney