Culture of the Southern United States

In the history of the United States the enslavement of African American people lasted from 1619 the thesis I intend to prove in this paper is that although the system of slavery in the Southern United States was a harsh system it was beneficial to the development of the Southern economy. Before the Civil War in 1861 slavery was a very common practice is states such as Kentucky or Alabama. Southern farmers produced cotton and traded it with the northern regions of the United. With the…

The United States of America is built famously upon many founding factors including things such as the Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press, and Freedom of Religion. One thing that the United States was also founded on is the African American community. Within her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses a variation of symbols to display the Southern racism and oppression of the black community that the Southern culture has embraced since the founding of the United States. Throughout the…

The United States has always been known as the land of the free, where opportunity is available to anyone. However, throughout our country 's history, these principles the nation built upon have not always been upheld. The country 's “golden door” has remained open to those seeking better opportunities, but for those already living in the United States, the door was closed. Many groups of Americans have been oppressed, and not given the equal access to the liberties they were entitled. Following…

their homeland, treating them as we treat farm animals today, and treating them as a piece of property rather than a human being. These are the things that many African Americans had to endure when the cotton market was rapidly growing in the southern United States. The sudden popularity, and interest to this cash crop is created to Eli Whitney’s innovation of the cotton gin. Was Eli Whitney's invention of the Cotton Gin a progressive innovation,…

Unlike the North, Southern states did not industrialize and remained primarily rural. The North and the South started to become very different when Elie Wiesel invented the cotton gin. The cotton gin could work as fast as 50 people working by hand. Since cotton could be processed more easily, Southern planters wanted to grow more cotton on fields. White landowners that started a business selling cotton depended on slave labor to plant and pick cotton. Later on, the South only accounted for only…

South, is Kenneth K. Baily’s Southern White Protestantism in the Twentieth Century. Bailey offers a history of the South, focusing on the ideas of white society from the 1900s to the author’s present time-1964. When a study of any part of southern history takes place, some focus must be given to African American culture. This is especially true when focusing on Christianity, which Bailey fails to do. The black population has molded and influenced the southern culture as much as whites have.…

By the early 20th century, military commemoration and historical sites were growing in popularity in the United States. Federal and state governments, as well as private enterprises, were purchasing large amounts of land to serve as cemeteries, reunion grounds and historical parks for the purposes of celebration and remembrance. This was especially true in the American South, where a push for Confederate memorial grounds and commemorative sites sprung up in considerable numbers after the end of…

Lynching was a popular form of punishment in the southern United States from 1892-1900. Lynching is killing someone without legal trial, often times by hanging. African Americans were subjects of lynching for several different crimes that often times were not even committed. Southern citizens used lynching to intimidate African Americans, causing the freedoms they were allowed to not be easily exercised. Southern whites used lynching to punish African Americans for unjust crimes, scare them from…

conversation on criminal justice reform, and the issue of systemic racism towards African Americans, the reactionary movement to these and other progressive campaigns includes an affiliation with Confederate statues. This reactionary movement is seen in states such as Louisiana, North Carolina, and Virginia, when there were strong and, in the case of North Carolina, successful campaigns to outlaw the removal of any Confederate monument (Graham). Confederate statues do not educate the…

Compare and Contrasting of the North and Southern United States at a very transformative time during the 1800’s to 1850’s. The new devolving economy in the Western Territories will be heavily influenced by the fermenting conflicts between the North and South. The fast-growing West will need to decide if it will follow the industrial North or will they be more influenced by the Southern States’ continued agriculture and slavery. Northern and Western factory owners are employing immigrants that…