The north had the money, the people, the resources, and the industrial power to diversify the railroad networks. So following markets and money, the north built networks to the west to expand. Also, railroads were prevailing making a rise in real estate values, increasing regional concentrations of industry, the size of business units and growth in investment banking and agriculture. Wheat production was also moving westward with the rail lines.
The south in the other hand do not have the capability to construct as much railroads as the north did so therefore there was less western expansion. As well the south had more concerns in building canals and shipping products of the states to England.
The Code aimed to provide a legal framework for slavery, to establish protocols governing the conditions of colonial inhabitants, and to end the illegal slave trade.
