Hello there,
One thing that they did was they sought new trade routes to Eastern Asia.
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~Jurgen
They were wealthier than other peasants and therefore had the most to lose.
The third one , A new class of wealthy
This was the time of the Industrial Revolution. The economic relationship between the north and the south in the early 1800s was that the south grew the majority of the crops and then it was sent to the industries in the north to be processed into material. Example cotton was grown in the south and sent to the north and turned into cloth.