After the Civil War the North began to industrialize more in response to the increased need of goods durring the war. This increased jobs and prosperity in the North.
The North won the war which was the union soldiers. The north was fighting to abolish slavery. Because they defeated the south they changed our nation to a non slave environment which effects today's...
Northern manufacturing industries prospered.
The South's economy was nearly destroyed.
Cotton prices dropped after the war.
Cotton prices dropped after the war.
The Civil War (for one thing) abolished slaverly, more in the north than the south. It also kept the south states from seceding from the United States, mainly because of Abraham Licoln.