The Divison of the North and South

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…its influence in politics to the old north west. The old north west not only emerged as the new agricultural center but it had some factories, a major city, Chicago, rail lines, and canals. Even before all of these technological advance the southern states thought that they were being cheated, and tried to defy the government. They failed miserably, with all of these emerging problems it threw our nation in course of some uncorrectable events.