If we are talking about the mid/late 1800s and early 1900s then the answer is North. At the time there were very few plantations in the North because their primary source of income was making and selling goods. While in the South they mainly focused on harvesting things like cotton, sugar, tobacco, and rice. They had only had a couple of factories. In the West, they had both farms and factories. Both were important in the West, but they mainly focused on natural resources such as coal, iron, wood/trees, and sometimes gold.
In fact, the Northeast is one of the most heavily industrialized and urbanized areas in the world. The Atlantic seaboard cities of Philadelphia, Boston, and New York City serve as international trade centers. Coal, iron ore, and oil—found mainly in Pennsylvania—fueled the industrialization of the region
Oil accounts for 43.5 percent of resource-rich sub-Saharan Africa wealth, substantially less than in resource-rich comparators outside Africa, and land accounts for about 35 percent. Metals and minerals account for 27 percent for Zambia, 26 percent for South Africa, and 14 percent for Botswana.
Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press. ... But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means.
What is the purpose of debates in the federal legislative process? To allow supporters and opponents of a bill to state their cases. Congress forms a conference committee in order to: Eliminate differences between House and Senate versions of a bill.
