By 1848, Northern and Southern economies had diverged because
- A
Both regions had developed identical industrial economies based on free wage labor
- B
The South had rapidly industrialized while the North remained focused on small farming
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The North had banned slavery, while the South relied on slave-based plantations and exported cotton
- D
The North had become an agrarian region while the South built most of the nation's factories
Explanation
Industrialization and free labor in the North; cotton-driven plantation system in the South.