Essay about Southerns Experienced Development in Different Ways

Slavery was one of the main factors sending the north and south into a raging war. There was more to than just slavery being abolished. Slavery being abolished to the south was like the government was taking abilities and money from them. Thus making them feel as if they were being done wrong. Also a majority of southerners were plantation owners needing slaves to work the farms so they could earn

One of the greatest issues within this time period was slavery. The subject had been suppressed for years, and made a halfway appearance within the Era of Good Feelings before it was buried, once again. Slavery was the greatest tension-causing topic between the North and South. Southerners were pro-slavery, as their farms and ways of live depended upon it. Northerners were generally abolitionists, as it was immoral and unconstitutional, in their eyes. Southerners saw the Northerners’ wishes to abolish slavery as means to obtain even more power. Were slavery to be abolished in the South, Southern agriculture and economy would immediately fail, affecting the rest of America, as well. There’d be no one to work on the plantations, except the white Southerners, themselves. Simply, without slaves, the Southern way of life would

Between the time period of 1840 and 1860, slavery played an influential and pivotal role in the development of a new southern lifestyle. In the struggle for dominance in America, slavery was the South’s stronghold and the underlying cause in much of their motives for many of the economic instigations along with the affirmative political actions. By dominating the everyday southerner’s life, slavery also dominated the economic and political aspects of life during the height of the slavery period. By the 1840’s the Southern economy had become almost entirely slave and and agriculturally dependent. Without the dependence of slaves in the south, a person was to remain landless, poverty stricken or struggling to sustain life through the means

States rights was a huge issue. State laws were debated among the North and South. The more the two sides disagree, the closer the South came to seceding from the Union. For example, “The North is

The fight over whether or not slavery needed to exist was a very controversial topic at the time. The North was fighting to keep the Union while on the other hand the South was fighting to become independent. The South had attempted to separate from the United States before but had not been successful. South Carolina was not a large enough state to be on its own. The second time they had tried they were successful because they had the support of other states such as Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and more.

The southern states were a slave society, and were known to being the way of life. It was the root to everything in the south, and southerners were very protective about it. In the south southerners “feared that without slavery’s expansion, the abolitionist faction would come to dominate national politics and an increasingly dense population of slaves would lead to bloody insurrection and race war” (The American Yawp, Chap.13), and southerners did not want to jeopardize their way of life. The south would press on the notion that racial mixing and racial wars would break out, and that blacks were a threat to white supremacy. Besides the racial fears the south would speak out on, they also stressed that slaves were property, which entitles them to their owner. People in the south also used the bible to justify slavery because it was present in the bible. The southern states believed in the ‘mudsill’ theory. James Henry Hammond speech on the ‘mudsill’ theory explained the theory. Hammond and other pro slavery southerners defined slavery as a good thing. Paternalism was another justification, to influence their belief that slavery was a caring establishment. That south argued that they took care of their slaves, and that the north did not treat their workers with such

The big question that northern state politicians had was; does the individual freedom that was won in the Revolution give a man the right to enslave another? Also did America want to be a country still supported by slavery? Mexico had already abolished slavery and England had become dependent on paid factory workers not slaves for labor. This was also becoming very popular in northern states. A free man could be a factory worker, and he could be proud it. (pg. 433). It was this thinking that lead the issue of slavery to be highly debated in political functions. The southern states were still trying to defend slavery. Their state economies were built on slave labor and the south did not have the capability to convert to having large factories like in the northern states. So James Henry Hammond South Carolina made and passed a motion that blocked the discussion of slavery at the national and state level. (pg. 433) This motion later became known as the gag rule. (pg. 433). So now one of the biggest key issued that America faced could no longer even be discussed. That is a huge impact on how well the government could function and how states could interact with one

The Southern states thought that seceding from the North was the only solution to their problems. Lincoln said, “I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free,” and he was right about that. The north wanting to get rid of slaves and the south wanting to keep them caused many problems between the two. Their disagreement on slaves made their lives living together very

After the construction of the railroad, more and more cargo was given the opportunity to be shipped between states. Raw materials from the newly found land in the West were able to be quickly shipped to the East. This change helped the states ship over 50 million dollars worth of cargo between each other in the first ten years after construction. The railroad allowed the Eastern states and Western States exchange goods easily and efficiently. Shipping between states was now easier and cheaper than ever before causing commerce to increase rapidly. Farms began to pop up along the railroad. The goods manufactured at these farms were easily distributed because of the transcontinental railroad. Markets were extended because of the railroad construction. More people wanted to start new businesses because they saw opportunities with the railroad and how much easier it was to sell and ship goods. Items that were once scarce and hard to buy were now greatly manufactured and simple to purchase and receive. The transcontinental railroad also expanded the area as to where items can be shipped to. Items were once only able to be sold locally, but since the railroad helped create an outlet for more products, commerce extended majorly. The now larger market made manufactured goods more convenient to buy which increased

The Union had the majority vote at that time and the South felt their interest had not considered at all. The cultural existence at that time showed the government America had placed into effect was an experiment that failed. Designed to govern a country that had very similar cultures and lifestyles and this was not the reality

Slavery was an important concept in the South because of the farms that the South used for their economy. The cotton produced in the south was a major income for the economy of the South. The population in the south could be up to 50% slaves (Doc 1). There was almost no slavery in the North compared to in the South. The only slavery in the North were in states that bordered the South. Slaves in the North numbered at four hundred thirty thousand while in the South there was up to three and half million slaves (Doc 2). The North feared that slavery would spread and eventually there would be more slave states than non-slave states. This created tension between both the North and South. The South was afraid that the North would suppress slavery while the North was afraid that the South would spread slavery. The pressure could also have been caused by a similar idea involving slavery which had a lot of tension revolving around it. This was when the South realized they were in a minority. The North did not want the South to expand slavery and the South wanted to expand slavery which caused a confrontation. There were more non slave states then there were slave states which can be shown through the Kansas Nebraska Act map (Doc 7). The South was outnumbered in The Senate, House of Represents, and all of Congress. This made the South fear that they would not get an opinion in the government. Tension and pressure

Between 1800 and 1865, slaves lived in the Southern States and worked in the tobacco, wheat, rice, corn and cotton plantations. Essentially, slavery was an economic institution with far-reaching benefits to slaveholders, since the value of slave labor was considerably more than the cost of their maintenance. Demands for democratization, respect for human dignity and American Civil War presented a major turning point in the institution of slavery as farmers turned to lesser labor-intensive production methods such as the use of Eli Whitney 's Cotton Gin. This paper analyzes different ways in which institution of Slavery affected the development of American South between 1800 & 1865, and the lives of people living in the region. In doing so the paper considers economic, political, social and cultural implications of the institution.

The Southern states built their economy on slavery and plantations. Southern states believed in states rights, they didn’t want the government to be in charge because they would have to give up slavery if the government was in charge. The South decided to leave the union to keep slavery and became the confederate states of America. If the state was in charge then they could keep and extend slavery. They argued that each state has a right to leave the union (secede). The South would shatter without slavery, it was the most important part of their

The North and the South were far from settling the slave issue. Another reason that caused the South to go to war was the difference in economic policies. The North was expanding more in the commercial and industrial side while the South was reliant on agriculture. Cities and factories had developed in the North and in the South, it was still staple producing and agrarian. The North’s industry was beginning to dominate its economy while the South was still mainly based on agriculture. The South only produced manufactured goods for consumption and the North were able to export manufactured goods. The taxes and tariff was unfair to the South. The Tariff Act of 1832 put high import fees on all European manufactured good, which was established to protect the Northern industries. The South’s reaction to the Act was a threat to secede from the Union. Railroads were also built to bond the northern tier of states. This made transportation easier in the Northeast than in the South. The Northeast traded with the West while the South can trade only by sea. " They wanted to promote the industry of the New England states, at the expense of the people of the South and their industry" In politics, the North had an advantage over the South. The North was more populated than the South and the South only counted slaves which was big part of their populations as * of a person. Since the House of Representative was based on population

Slavery was something that became interwoven into the South’s economy considering it was a one crop economy that depended on cotton. Therefore it depended on slaves, even if only a fraction of the population actually owned slaves. Meanwhile, the northern economy was more focused on industry rather than agriculture. Their industries would purchase raw cotton and turn it into a finished good. The North and South therefore also had major differences in their economic attitudes. The dispute over slavery and the future of it led to secession, which brought a war where the Northern and Western states fought to preserve the Union and the Southern territories fought to establish their independence as a new confederation under a constitution of its own.