Effects Of Southernization

In a diagram labeled “Economic Connections during the Golden Age of the Song” (Document 4), it showed the development of China from farming to growing cities through the use of technology. By creating agricultural technology, there was eventually a surplus in food and other products began to sell. This opened up trade and jobs and made large business cities like the capital, Chang’An. The economy expanded and prospered based on the trade of art and technology. In a picture scene (Document 9), it shows a busy, bustling city doing business. There are merchants and traders who traveled by water. All of this caused cultural diversity and diffusion. The growth of China’s strong economic system and systems of trade resulted in the Tang and Song China becoming the Golden

The Southern Colonies had hopes of creating profit from the export of agricultural goods when they developed a plantation economy; farms would grow single crops, such as rice and tobacco. However, as the agriculture business grew, so did the demand for more workers, but they needed a cheap source labor to rely on. The idea of slavery was brought up, but the Southern Colonies could not enslave the Native Americans because they became difficult due to their independence. As a result, African slaves were used because of how easy it was to enslave them. Many African slaves were taken from their homes, and put in a foreign place; this left them defenseless and afraid. The slave population grew largely, and became a steady source for many single

China’s population was growing rapidly, almost doubling between 750 and 1100. Because of this huge population boom, paper money was established, and the trade industry grew. There were many advances that were made, such as technological improvements

During the rule of Justinian (527-565 CE) this empire was expanded to the greatest size that it would ever reach. Because it was so big, Justinian assigned two capitals for the empire, and as this happened, there was transfer of goods and technologies through both capitals. Because the empire was so big and the amount of merchandise and money that was managed through the empire was so broad, Justinian implemented the use of banking, which changed completely the way people earned money, saved their money, and traded goods to get money from them to bank it. As this happened in the Byzantine Empire, China fell into a cultural exchange of goods, technologies, and ideas that came from the Silk Roads. It was during the Tang and Song dynasties that this trade was at its peak. At the time, besides receiving goods from Europe and other neighbors through the complex routes of trading, the Chinese developed their own technologies for their own exportation. Among these technologies there was large metallurgical production, invention of gunpowder, naval technologies, rapid and cheap printing, and porcelain. These technologies enhanced even more trade for China and due to this, paper money was invented for the purpose of controlling trade; the same thing that occurred with the Byzantine Empire and banking. Even though China invented more technologies than the Byzantine Empire, both became major trade hotspots in their own way and invented systems to

Slavery was probably the most influential factor in the developing differences between the two cultures. Southern cultures developed a farm economy that could not survive without slave labor. Slave owners often became leaders in there communities. They were members in their local governments. Laws were made that prevented slaves from marrying, own property, or earn their freedom. These laws also did not allow slaves to be educated. Because all the hard work was done by the slaves, the slave owners had time and the education to greatly influence political life in southern colonies. Slavery did not become a force in the northern colonies because of different economical reasons. The cold weather and poor soil did not support the farm economy that the south had. This resulted in the northern colonies to depend on an economy that included manufacturing and trade.

The Northern and Southern colonies had many differences and similarities in the way the world was maintained and controlled. There are comparisons and contrast that can be discovered through political, social, and economical. There regions developed an identity that would affect the American economy. The South it meant agricultural production and the North it meant a collection in resources for the purpose of industrial manufacturing.

One of the most striking differences between the North and the South was the climate and geography. The North’s climate was full of warm summers and cold winters; the terrain was rocky and hilly, which wasn’t good for farming. But the North did have little farms. Most of the forest was used for shipbuilding, and cities were used for trading centers. The rivers were fast and shallow which made it hard to navigate. Also in the North people used waterpower to run factories, because it was a cheap source of energy. The South was somewhat different; the climate was generally warm and sunny. The summers were long and hot, and the winters were pretty mild. Due to the South’s climate they were able to grow different crops in large amounts, unlike the North. The south had large farms, called plantations. In the South cities developed near rivers, because of rich soil which made it easier for them to farm.

The New South was mostly about development and growth that started to gradually increase after 1877 on into the 1900s. Iron and steel were the main contributors followed by tobacco and timber. Steel mills were popping up all over the south which provided numerous jobs and a better way of living. The downside was the effect it had on the farm industry due to the fact that cotton was cheap and so was labor. As a result most of the people preferred to work in the factories which paid higher wages.

The North was the symbol of progress for the United States. They were much more technologically and morally developed than the South. They had a much higher population and were better supplied and equipped than the South. They also had the African Americans fighting on their side which gave them a more diverse fighting force (Witt). Although they initially lost many battles and lost many more men than the South, they were able to overwhelm the South in both numbers and supplies. This is what led them to victory.

As the previous chapters indicate, there are numerous extant studies on the post-World War II shift in partisanship in the American South, with several studies published even before the election of President Kennedy. As such, I know that this will not be the definitive treatment of this subject. Here, I ask this question, in which is embedded a hypothesis: “Did the decline of agriculture in the southern economy contribute to increased Republican Party strength in the American South?” This question, by its very nature, has to account for the economic prosperity brought by such a dramatic economic change. After all, when the Twelve Southerners wrote their defense of the southern way of life, the South was a society of subsistence farmers (Ransom, et al. 1978). People were not used to having much money. The money one made did not seem to be at the whims of public policy, but rather was determined by factors outside of politics, such as the weather and blight. But as the economy changed, so did society; people began to see their wealth in relation to the wealth of others. Subsistence farmers wanted to have food on the table and maybe some extra crops to sell so they could buy shoes once a year from a catalogue for their children. Today, work for most southerners takes place in an office or factory. Farmers still work the land with larger farms, but they no longer are the linchpin of the economy. If crops fail, southern cities such as Houston and Nashville will not economically

The Northern states had the pleasure of discovering abundant resources of coal. In addition, Richmond faced difficulties because of their existence on the margins of a plantation economy. Even though this was the nation’s first mine, it had various disadvantages that would not let it compete on an industrious scale. In the following paragraph, I will discuss how the South had a secret hand in textile mills within the United States.

Southern expansionism took on many forms in the United States between the years 1789 and 1860. Examining southern history for these years shows how slave-grown cotton played a major factor in southern expansion, specifically through the issues of the Louisiana Purchase, soil erosion, the desires of yeoman farmers and planters, Indian removal, the interstate slave trade, the independence movement in Texas, the Mexican War, filibusters in Central America, and especially concerning relations between the southern and northern states. However, southern history shows us that while the growth of southern cotton did in fact play a large role in the rationale for expansion, but there are other concerns involved here. Most notably, the constant dilemma of the slave to free state representation in Congress additionally played a large role in why so many southerners decided to pack up and head west. These two reasons can be explained as the two most primary concerns involving the sudden growth of southern expansion. Despite cotton being one of the major factors that led to southern expansion, it can be proven by examining southern history that the constant struggle between northerners and southerners to balance the ratio of slave to free states in Congress additionally played into expansion.

* The ways that the south reinvented itself was through attempts in rebuilding their farms and negotiating new labor agreements with their former slaves. This method failed by the majority of southern land owners being to prideful or greedy to pay decent wages of the time. The south also became known for their railway system and is now the standard for development. The railway system brought urban life to the south through city growth and the growth of the iron industry. The southern people used their iron industry as their main competing industry with the northern. In these industries it was uncommon for black southerners to be allowed to work in the factories. Poor whites would be hired over blacks in the rail yards as well. The south being as picky to who they hired only bettered their communities rather than those of both black and white communities. These changes brought our country into an era of segregation. With segregation starting in the following years after the civil war it kept the south from truly catching up to the northern culture and industry because of their hate. If southern people would have been willing to bend more with their own losses after the war and been more willing to give equality to their former slaves things would have turned out

While both the North and the South had stable and confident economic systems, the North was much more industrialized and diversified and with a better transportation system they not only had the ability for mass production but also the means for speedy and

Southernization has played a crucial role in the advancement of the Eastern Hemisphere throughout the fifth century, and beyond. According to Shaffer, southernization contributed greatly to the development of Southern Asia, where it was later spread to various other places around the world. This spread of new ideas has catalyzed the development of the Western world in in a myriad of different ways. Economically, Western Europe benefitted enormously from the introduction of new food crops and other commodities. Intellectually, intellectual concepts, especially that of math, have greatly stimulated not only the economy, but also novel new innovations. Technologically, new inventions and discoveries served as a gateway to a more industrialized Western Europe.