The document summarizes key differences between the economies, societies, and views of the North and South in the United States prior to the Civil War. The South's economy was based around agriculture and slavery, focusing on cotton and tobacco. The North had a more industrialized and urban economy following the Industrial Revolution. The North embraced new technology while the South changed little and relied on slave labor. Slavery was legal and integral to the Southern economy, while the North found slavery immoral and had abolished it, setting up societal and economic divisions between the regions.