What gave them an advantage is economic prosperity due to rich soil and development of plantations based on slave labor. Many profit was accumulated from crops (tobacco) and also cotton. Later on in the 1800s when Eli Whitney created the cotton gin it created a boom in the slave industry and increased largely by 71%. After that the tool allowed mass production in textile industries.
Answer:
high tariffs, against slavery = north
low tariffs, for slavery, western expansion of slavery =south
cheap public land = west
govt. built roads = east
Explanation:
In the the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Russia had to abandon
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russian Poland, Part of Belarus, Ukraine, Bessarabia, and Parts of the Caucasus to the Ottoman Empire
The Germans hoped to turn most of these countries into German satellite states.
In addition, Russia had to agree to pay about US$ 6 billion in reparations to Germany.
