Many immigrants from Europe began working in factories and producing goods used by people in the North. Many factories began producing textiles (cloth) with the cotton grown in the South. The economy of the South was based on agriculture.
In the early years of our Congress they had representatives and the senators and the whole meaning of it is the word pirate which means filbuster was popular in the 1850s when it was to host the senate floor in order to prevent a vote on a bill