Antebellum

The differences between the North and the South of Antebellum America were the main motivations in the Civil War. The sectional differences between the North and South caused extreme problems maybe even one of the causes of the Civil War. In the South People were provided with sunny days, long, hot summers, and short, mild winters. The flat land and rich soil gave the agrarians a great place for plantations. There were also many slow rivers which gave great irrigation and easy boat stream trade…

During the antebellum period growing tensions between slave states and free states began to erupt. Efforts of the north to abolish slavery collided with efforts of southern slave holding states to expand slavery. Not only was the south’s economy heavily influenced by slavery, but also seen as a right stated in the constitution, the right to own property. These two notions will divide the Union and lead the southerners to try and secede from the north. Although it can be argued otherwise, slavery…

American History. Pick one of them and share how he specifically impacted antebellum politics and the issue of slavery. Also, include background information. This essay will discuss the impact that John C. Calhoun had on antebellum Politics and the issue of slavery. John C. Calhoun born March 18, 1782 and died on March 31 1850, was a noteworthy U.S. statesman and spokesman for the slave-plantation system of the antebellum South. As a juvenile congressman out of South Carolina, he assisted…

The California gold rush was an important part of the Antebellum period of American history because it dramatically increased the financial quality of the United states. The gold rush was when a big gold deposit was found in a stream in california that caused people from around the country to come. The gold rush changed our country in a short period of time. When James W Marshall was working for a man named John stutter, he saw what looked like something glowing in the water. He picked it up…

Throughout the Antebellum time period, the practices of the slave trade included high level auctions. In the south, due to the newly developed cotton gin, plantation owners could make an immense amount of cash by growing cotton. However, since the labor for growing cotton was highly strenuous, plantation owners sought after slaves to complete their tasking work. The Atlantic Slave Trade immediately ramped up again when progressively more boats traveled across the middle passage. After the…

The antebellum era is known for being a time of controversy and division leading up to the Civil War. The political atmosphere was unlike what America is experiencing today and has since been heavily debated by historians. Voter turnout seemed to be at an all time high and today’s turnouts pale in comparison. However, the reasoning behind this has yet to be agreed upon. William Gienapp, Altschuler and Blumin, as well as Jon Grinspan have all written comprehensive analyses in attempts to justify…

Solomon Northrup is a free black man that is kidnapped and sold off into the southern slave trade during the antebellum era in the United States. Suffering for 12 brutally long years in the antebellum South; Solomon is flogged, broken, and bound by the color of his skin to ruthless slave masters in Louisiana and Georgia where race and gender define one’s status. White male slave owners being at the top of the hierarchal ladder and black woman being at the bottom help to elevate white woman’s…

working class radicalism emerged in America from the importation of European Marxist doctrines. Sean Wilentz contends the idea of foreign influence; instead, he claims that revolutionary tendencies of postbellum proletarians originated from how antebellum artisans understood their role in the Republic. Furthermore, Wilentz argues American proletarians became class conscious while defining themselves in relation to evolving mode of production. Nevertheless, contrary to Wilentz’s argument that the…

institutions and culture, in the antislavery movement, and in the struggle for racial justice. It was also the bridge between the black community and sympathetic white people. Even though few African Americans achieved financial security during the antebellum period, black people could become rich. Segregated neighborhoods gave rise to a black professional class of physicians, lawyers, ministers and undertakers who only served African Americans. Blacks merchants could gain wealth selling to…

However, they differ through the environments they are located in, and the way they deal with the ideology of racism. Therefore, the Upper South and the Lower South are more different than they are similar, but the ideology of racism transformed the Antebellum South as a whole. Both the Upper South and the Lower South were undeniably dependent on slave labor to make profits. Even though the Upper South’s crop changed from Tobacco - which needed heavy slave labor all the time- to grains, they…