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Answer: In the North, the economy was based on industry. They built factories and manufactured products to sell to other countries and to the southern states. They did not do a lot of farming because the soil was rocky and the colder climate made for a shorter growing season. In the South, the economy was based on agriculture.
The colonization of the Americas gave the mother countries new land to exploit. They extracted natural resources, such as silver from Potosi and created plantations where they grew cash crops like sugar and tobacco. However, to run these operations, they needed labor. At first, with acts like the Spanish encomiendas, they forced the natives to work. Soon though, the natives died from European diseases like smallpox that were brought over. They fixed this labor shortage with African slaves, who were stronger and had more immunities.
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It spelled the end of many economic opportunities for both groups.
After the World War I, women and African Americans were mainly affected by the return of veterans from war, who would most of the time take their jobs. Especially women, were put in a "secondary" position, where their work force was seen not as priority, or primary, but to "complement" men's work. There were services for nurses, cleaners, secretarial opportunities and so on.
