The most obvious change in the North in the decades before the Civil War was the
A) decline of the whaling industry.
B) rapid expansion of industry.
C) halt of emigration from Europe.
D) rapid expansion of unionization among unskilled workers.

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The most significant change in the North in the decades leading up to the Civil War was the rapid expansion of industry, which transformed the economic landscape and contributed to the growing divide between the industrial North and the agrarian South.

The Most Obvious Change in the North in the Decades