Compare And Contrast The Tension Between The North And The South Of 1919

1607-1776 also known as the colonial period is a time of new beginnings.When the colonists first moved from England to the new world, they were in search of freedom in every sense of the word. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and being free of the British tirade. They formed cities and towns while establishing their own laws. The issue that occurred is that while the colonists were away from Britain they weren’t away from British laws. In an effort to control and make money from the colonists Britain issued a series of tax acts which include the Stamp Act, the Sugar Act, and the Tea Act. All of which led to the colonists revolt against British reign. This new search for independence is what

Throughout the 19th century, the distinctions between the North and South in the United States were controversial. Prior to the Civil War, the North consisted of business owners and middle-class men. The South consisted of mostly farmers. The North was industrial, using railroads and factories. The South was agricultural, with mostly farms and plantations. The North paid their labor workers. The South used slaves. Not only did their opposing views on slavery and the separation of the two cultures, tensions arose that eventually led to one of the most gruesome wars in history.

ship the cotton but this meant that the South had to pay the North to

Before the race riots broke out in Chicago, tension between two communities were high and resulted 1919 Chicago Race Riot, which Black teenager called Eugene Williams swimming in Lake Michigan was stoned to death by White bystanders. His death caused one of the worst riots in American history because 37 people died, 500 injured and thousands left homeless. When the local police were called to the William’s death, they refused to arrest the man who initiated the

The tensions of the Civil War are very much still alive in the Southern United States one hundred and fifty years after the Confederacy surrendered to Union forces to end the war. While the tensions may have mitigated away from full-fledged war between North and South, there still remain tensions along racial and cultural lines well beyond the war. In Tony Horwitz’s Confederates in the Attic these long standing tensions left over from the war are delved into by Horwitz as he makes his way across the south to see how the old Confederacy is viewed in the modern world of the United States. What Horwitz found was a dualistic society differing views on the Confederacy and the events of the Civil War. Dualities left from the war in aspects such as racial tensions, the meaning of the Confederate flag even between North and South entirely. Those living in the South can be seen holding a resonating connection to the Civil War. It becomes clear in Confederates in the Attic the Civil War not only became the catalyst of such dualities in Southern society, but still further shape and perpetuate these dualities long after the Civil Wars conclusion.

The Civil war between the north and south was a fight sparked by conflicting ideologies. James McPherson detailed that honor, duty, patriotism and ideology formed the main sustaining motivations for the Civil War, while courage, self-respect and group cohesion kept men going in combat. Along with these McPherson In his book For Cause & Comrades McPherson describes soldiers initial motivations. The differences between the confederate and union soldiers’ motivations were more prominent than they were similar because their underlying goals for the future of America varied when it pertained to human rights.

The Chicago race riots of 1919 were one of the darkest moments in our nations history. But something so terrible does not just happen over night, in fact the reason for this riot began with the Great Migration around 1910. The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African-Americans from the rural south into the urban north. Of those 6 million African-Americans traveling to the north 500,000 of them went to Chicago 's South Side. The African-American population thought they were going to a better situation by escaping the apartheid practices of Jim Crow. However they were taken advantage of and seen as new competition to the northern white population. Nine years later during the summer of 1919, two years after World War I ended, the American society suffered from a racial tension that it has never seen before. The racial tension brewed from the demobilization of black and white

The Chicago Race Riots of 1919 helped to further show how African Americans are looked as inferior, not just within the citizens of the United States, but the Congress and criminal justice system. White and black beaches were separated by an invisible line; the black beach on 25th street and whites on 29th street. The story of Eugene Williams swimming on the beach worsened after a white police officer, Dan Callahan, refused to intervene or arrest the group of white men responsible for his death, in turn starting the deadliest racial violence in Chicago history. The riot lasted a week with protestors full of rage mostly on the South side with white gangs attacking isolated blacks and blacks attacking isolated whites.

Compare and contrast the home fronts of the North and South during the Civil War. How did the war affect the economy, politics, and society of both sections? How did the developments on the home fronts affect the eventual outcome of the war?

The main causes of the Chicago Race Riot are very significant to how it all started. According to Tuttle’s book, Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 there are three main causes that all relate to the starting of the violent outbreak. The first cause all started at 29th street beach. There at the beach, the blacks tried to join the whites, but just the opposite happened (pp.5). The whites did everything in their power to expel the blacks from their beach (pp.5). They did just that until the blacks came back with reinforcement in their numbers causing the whites to leave their beach temporarily (pp.5). This cause basically shows that ever since the blacks fought for their way out of slavery that they were not looked at as equals. The whites still looked at themselves as superiors. They did not show it unless one of the blacks stepped out of line. For example, the incident at the 29th street beach when the blacks tried to swim at the white’s beach. Just by how Tuttle explained that the law was unwritten showed that whites mostly kept it not very public about their feelings until the race riot erupted.

Before the Civil War, the North and the South were very different. Their values were completely different. The North was more industrialized, urbanized, and was more reliant on wage labor. On the other hand, the South continued to be a rural, agricultural society, and depended on slavery to harvest the cash crops that they made a living off of. Such big differences brought about the Civil War. Was there something that could have been done to avoid the Civil War in the first place?

President Obama once said in a speech about tax cuts, “This country was founded on compromise” (Whitehouse.gov). While this statement can be seen in early America with the likes of the Great Compromise, the Three-Fifths Compromise, and the Missouri Compromise, as timed passed the demand for a compromise from the country started to dwindle. By 1860, the want of a compromise became very small due to the north and south being very divided on most issues. Specifically, sectionalism between the north and the south made compromise by 1860 impossible because of the social divide on slavery, the economic divide between each region, and the political division between the north and the south.

During the Civil War, both the North and South had different strengths and weaknesses. For example, strengths of the North were that they had a much larger population than the South, they had more industries/factories to produce more weapons, a better banking system, larger ships, and a better railroad system to transport weapons, etc. to their troops. On the other hand, the South had a smaller population, a small number of factories, less food, and very few railroad tracks. These weaknesses of the South, however, did not mean they didn’t have any strengths too. The South had superior military leadership, they were fighting in familiar territory, and overall had strong, educated college graduate soldiers that went to military school.

Compare and contrast economic, social, and political developments in the North and South between 1800-1860. How do you account for the divergence between the two sections?

Sectional conflict between the North and South was the very platform of the birth of the Civil War. Slavery was a prominent dispute that played a large role in the differences throughout the U.S. at this time, but there were other causes as well including economic and social differences and the election of Abraham Lincoln. In the midst of various events in the 1850s, it was the southern secession that began the true separation of the Union and the Confederacy, which showed the reality and quickness of the arrival of the Civil War in the United States.