New South

establishing colonies in New England and in the South. These two regions were very different from one-another and thus provided the colonists with very different challenges. Due to environmental factors such as soil quality and the need for cheap labor, the New England colonies and the Southern colonies were forced to find different economic solutions that would allow them to flourish and survive. The Southern colonies were fortunate to have settled on rich farm land with a warm climate that allowed them to farm year round. This made it easy for them to grow cash crops such as indigo, tobacco, cotton, sugar cane, and rice. They were then able to sell these…

Next was Old South, New South, or Down South? Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement which is a collection of scholarly essays that reassesses Florida's response to the modern civil rights movement. The core argument within these essays is that Florida's answer to the modern civil rights movement was basically no different from that of any other former states of the Confederacy. Contrary to popular opinion, Florida was not more mild on the subject of race relations than its southern…

prevalent and must command the South. Blacks may have certain common and political rights, yet they can 't have power in extent to their numbers. Social equality is unsatisfactory is the thing that the South reacted with so as to hold blacks under their control. The New South was a district of critical changes in the South. The New South had a strong core, economic diversity and healthy growth over time. There were earth shattering changes in the new south on open administrations, for example,…

The New South course covered shift the American South and what made this shift so significant. The New South economically and sociologically changed after the Civil War. The aftermath caused the South to be poor and rural; they were still dependent on the agricultural economy. It soon followed the North’s example of industrialization significantly changed the South’s economy. In turn, this brought more populations as well as diversity to the South. This reflects in what is seen as the New South…

After the Civil War the Southern economy which relied on slavery was destroyed. New South boosters came in during the industrial era and worked to improve the South by building railroads and factories. Southerners also began shipping out raw materials such and timber and coal. Just as before the war a majority of the South was poor. In books such as Rick Bragg’s Ava’s Man and Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls by Victoria Byerly the lives of the working class poor in the New South were described in…

What was the idea of the New South and how successful was it? Cheyenne (Varner) Richardson The New South was a reconstruction to get the South back on its feet, economically speaking. Much of the area had been damaged in the war, down to whole cities being wiped out. There was also the problem of freeing African-Americans from slavery. After the Civil War ended, the United States had to reintegrate both a formerly slave population and a formerly rebellious population back…

Reconstruction is commonly known as the time of rebuilding the United States in a post Civil War America. When slavery was abolished and the Nation was divided President Andrew Johnson had to face the daunting task of bringing the South back into the Union, as well as redefining a culture that had drastically shifted in a few short years. The culture and economy of the Southern United States had been built around slavery, when the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted, freeing the slaves and…

Sheldon Hackney was a historian of the post-Civil War South. Hackney was the protégé of historian C. Vann Woodward who specialized in the American South and wrote Origins of the New South. Hackney was the first in twenty years to challenge Woodward’s ideas that he expressed in his article. Because Hackney worked closely with Woodward, Hackney was able to know Woodward’s thoughts, ideas, and research first hand and apply this information to his article “Origins of the New South in Retrospect.”…

Analysis of “The New Technopolitics of Development and the Global South as a Laboratory of Technological Experimentation” Technological Determinism is one of the three major theories on science and technology studied in Science and Technology Studies. The other two are Social Construction of Technology, and Actor-Network/Assemblage Theory. This essay will focus on Technological Determinism, and analyze Adam Moe Fejerskov’s article “The New Technopolitics of Development and the Global South as a…

“South Street, New York” Walker Evans’s photos’ are able to portray and capture the hardship of the people in the Great Depression. For example, one of his images shows these three men that could be homeless or perhaps looking for a job, this is because of how the men are situated in front of a dilapidated building. The fellow that is sleeping in front of the locked doors looks to be very lackadaisical, maybe because he is a customer just that desperate to wait all night to be the first one…