Culture of the Southern United States

Before the Civil War the United States (U.S.) experienced a time period that was highlighted by increased sectionalism called the antebellum period. The antebellum time period was from 1819 to 1860 and economic, political, and social issues started to divide the various regions of the U.S. This sectionalism, or loyalty towards a particular region, started to develop between the North and South over the practice of slavery. Also during this time period the U.S. was expanding westward and the…

Lincoln; secession; and slavery. Before the Missouri compromise states were evenly divided between slave states and Free states. In 1819 Missouri requested to join the Union as a slave state, which would upset the balance between the two factions. In March 1820 Congress allowed Missouri to be a slave state but Main would be a free state and any new state formed in the lands of the Louisiana Purchase of latitude 36°30′ would be Free states. It received backlash from both the south and the…

Since its creation, the United States of America, has been a country with a mixture of populations and races. As a multiethnic nation, many black people and other cultures from all over the world have been part of this country. Along the years from 1850 to 1920, America has experienced different kinds of xenophobia and racism. The first and biggest racial discrimination has been towards black people, but after the inflow of immigrants and the American foreign policy when other places were being…

Since the colonial days white southern settlers had dominated the economic gain in the United States with a concentration on farming and the dependence of slaves. There was such a demand for cotton that by the 1860’s Britain was importing more than eighty percent of its cotton supply from the southern states. The growing demand for cotton led to more enslaved labor. In the late 1850’s, cotton became so profitable that the Southern planters became arrogant. What they failed to realize was…

The laws of the “Jim Crow" was the common domestic name of American laws in the Southern States, prescribing the segregation of white and black people in transport, education, marriage, means of leisure, etc. These laws were common in the south of the United States from 1883 to 1954, in spite of the emancipation of black slaves in the year 1865. All of the south had the inscriptions of "whites only" and "only for the colored" served as a vivid reminder of the lower status of the past. The…

The Harlem district of New York City became a spirited community for a diverse population of thousands moving in from the southern states and the Caribbean, thus creating the atmosphere for Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a part of the post-World War I cultural shift that found all Americans regardless of race, trying to come to terms with the change from a rural way of life to a northern industrial style of life. While the Harlem Renaissance from the 1920s to 1930s played a…

and strong nation. Firstly, there was a major difference between Northern and Southern politics. The South mostly consisted of Democrats. Southerners favored a system of government with strong states and weak federal government, with the right to secede if they disagreed with the federal government. Southerners wanted a government that invested its money agriculture. The South also was also home to most pro-slave states. They also wanted to expand…

Slave-plantation system of the south. His stubborn attitude may not have been of his own choice but of the ideals he was round when he was younger. Slavery for him may not have been about mistreating people, it may have been fully economic and the Southern way of life. Being raised in the South himself, specifically South Carolina, he was raised with the ideals of slavery and how it benefited the south as a whole. Coming from a southerner, slavery was an institution that was not actually about…

Slavery was a major issue in the United States. The Northern and the Southern states had different point of views on just about anything. The north wanted nothing to do with slavery, but the south was just the opposite. This clashes between the north and the south caused sectionalism of the United States. Sectionalism is a slow tearing of the nation. Many issues such as slavery, industrialization, tariffs, and culture sharply divided the country. The demand for slavery in the south kept…

crisis of agriculture, slavery loses its role in the south. Around the same time, after the industrial revolution in the textile industry in Britain there is a big demand for US cotton. But cotton harvest is not very profitable occupation, since culture is a manual cleaning. In 1793, a young American teacher named Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a simple mechanized device that could effectively clean the cotton. His device was quickly widely used in agriculture, and for several years the US…