While the South utilized slavery to sustain its culture and grow cotton on plantations, the North prospered during the Industrial Revolution. Northern cities, the center of industry in the United States, became major metropolises due to an influx of immigrants. With this willing and cheap workforce, the North did not require a slave system. Although some northerners found the institution of slavery morally reprehensible, most did not believe in complete racial equality either. Slavery became even more divisive when it threatened to expand westward because non-slave holding white settlers did not want to compete with slaveholders in the new territories.
Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United States was destined to extend its territory to the Pacific Ocean. ... Some Americans were opposed to manifest destiny because other nations (Mexico & Great Britain) claimed the land and because they felt an expansive nation would be too large to govern.
Both had the economy booming, meaning they were both thriving with new homes, cars, and a lot of wealth. but in the 1950s were also an era of great conflict. For example, the nascent civil rights movement and the crusade against communism
