Question

How did many southerners view the North in the mid-1800s? Southerners thought that the North's wage labor system was a bad system. Southerners thought that the North's wage labor system would also be good for the South. Southerners were critical of the North because the northern economy was based on slave labor. Southerners wanted people in the South to have the same equality as people in the North..

Answer 1

Southerners were critical of the North and believed that the North's wage labor system was a bad system that they had no interest in putting into place in the south. The southern economy was based on slave labor and southerners wanted to continue the practice of slavery and prevent any transition away from this.