At that time, the South was striving to walk out of the gloom of failed war. Experiencing a series of momentous social changes then, this region was caught off guard by a new wave of Industrial Revolution. In view of the fundamental differences of two types of economy exist in the country and the South’s faltering economy, it was all doom, then, for the South - industrialization was not very possible. To start with, as stated above, the South was an agrarian economy depended on black slave. The majority of labor force were engaged in agricultural plantation such as farming and cultivating in farms as well as fields. Thus, there were not so much factories comparing with the North where mixed economy supported by free labor was pursued, and so was the need for machines. Besides, the illiterate black slaves were not qualified to operate machines and work in an industrialized environment. Moreover, with the machines and techniques obtained, the North could just import raw material from the South and process by themselves, which on the contrary, made the South neglect the necessity of developing their own manufacture industry. As suggested above, instead of stimulating the Southern economy, the Industrial Revolution again weakened it and made it lag far behind the
At that time, the South was striving to walk out of the gloom of failed war. Experiencing a series of momentous social changes then, this region was caught off guard by a new wave of Industrial Revolution. In view of the fundamental differences of two types of economy exist in the country and the South’s faltering economy, it was all doom, then, for the South - industrialization was not very possible. To start with, as stated above, the South was an agrarian economy depended on black slave. The majority of labor force were engaged in agricultural plantation such as farming and cultivating in farms as well as fields. Thus, there were not so much factories comparing with the North where mixed economy supported by free labor was pursued, and so was the need for machines. Besides, the illiterate black slaves were not qualified to operate machines and work in an industrialized environment. Moreover, with the machines and techniques obtained, the North could just import raw material from the South and process by themselves, which on the contrary, made the South neglect the necessity of developing their own manufacture industry. As suggested above, instead of stimulating the Southern economy, the Industrial Revolution again weakened it and made it lag far behind the