The South : America With A Difference

In McPherson’s “Antebellum Southern Exceptionalism” essay, it is noted that the argument is focused on the fact that although the South was seen as different and exceptional, it was actually the North who had been changing. The South was only keeping the same values and traditions it had been following for years (McPherson 41). One instance where the North’s change is noted is when McPherson demonstrates the percentage of agricultural work in the North and South; "In 1800, 82 percent of the Southern labor force worked in agriculture compared with 68 percent in the free states. By 1860 the Northern share had dropped to 40 percent while the Southern proportion had actually increased slightly, to 84

Racism, as a generalization, was a common and mostly unified way of thinking in the Southern states for a very long time

Racism has been a horrific existence in our society since before the 1870's. Around 1876, America was just beginning to open up enough job opportunities for all Americans. After the Civil War, a freedman was just allowed to become full citizens. Did the North or South demolish the reformation of the South? The South killed reconstruction by using violent racist groups, non-violent racism, and igniting state issues.

Most southerners believed that they were doing a “favor” for slaves since slaves were uneducated people. They believed that by clothing them, feeding them, and putting a roof over their head they were creating a good for these people. Pro-Slavery South believed if these uncivilized people went off into the world, they wouldn’t survive, so for them to be

With reconstruction over, racism grew even more rampant in America. Jim Crow laws were put into place and unfair sharecropping and tenant farming contracts ran rampant. Another major racial problem was that of the white settlers in the West and the Chinese immigrants that had come over during construction projects such as the building of the Continental Railroad. White laborers were outraged that the Chinese works were taking their jobs and reacted by working as hard as possible to make life hard for them. This came to a head when Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 that ended nearly all Chinese immigration until

Racism in the South had remained a constant from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of reconstruction. Before the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment, slave owners did not only use racism to justify slavery, but they used race to stop the endeavors of their slaves. Document 6 Cites how slave owners told their slaves they could not learn to read or write because African Americans did not possess the intelligence to do so. Some slave owners actually believed this racist notion while others lied to prevent their slaves from learning to read and developing an efficient form of communication. After the end to slavery, racism in the South continued to live on. In addition to day to day racism, groups formed to ensure that African

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

From the Revolutionary War onwards, the South has been developed as the shining example of what an American should be like. Slavery was a huge attribute of Southern society, though looked down upon by the world, it was practiced and eagerly defended by political logic and religious zeal. One argument is made from a Senator

Did you know that Africa is one of the most diverse languages speaking Continents in the world? Definitely, there are an estimated 1500-2000 languages spoken in Africa, all due to the fact of colonization, (Google,2018). While It could cause the mass deal of death, we should colonize South America because the standard of living and quality of life could ascend for all the countries in South America. Also, South America and North America could obtain new and better goods. Finally, when we colonize South America we could make it more industrialized.

Since the end of the American Civil War, a movement started and continues to persist explaining the South’s reason for seceding from the Union and fighting the Civil War. This is the Lost Cause. Developed shortly after the defeat of the South as is shown in Edward Pollards book The Lost Cause Regained, this dogma has persisted throughout America into the current day. The influence of the Lost Cause can be seen in our media, historic sites and memorial, and this is derived from the continual use of early pro-southern books book authors like Edward Pollard. These influences continue to educate those interested in the cause of the South. The Lost Cause highlights the challenges modern historians face when analyzing the Lost Cause against the

And its abolitionist and free thinking.Meanwhile, the south’s colony is characterized by the controversy of slavery and the cash crops they produced

In April of 1861, the Civil War broke out in America, a war that was heavily based on the difference of opinion about slavery. The article Land of Contradiction by Justin Martin shows the experience of a traveling undercover journalist, Frederick Law Olmsted, who writes about the South, as he encounters new people and observes different lifestyles. Readers are able to see the South’s way of living through the use of slaves, but through the eyes of a Northerner. This helps with the understanding of the mindset of the Northerners when opposed to the South, which are the root feelings for the start of the war. As Olmsted was undercover, he was able to get up and close with the Southerners, revealing many secrets about the South that suggest why Southerners acted the way they did prior to the war, and why their economic status declined after the war. Through this article, one may understand the different views that were present during the civil war about the South’s harsh treatment of slaves, creating the understanding of the issue

The North and the South also sought out different paths on how America’s future was going to be. In the article Antebellum Southern Exceptionalism, McPherson incorporated articles telling about each side’s way of life; southerners were the agricultural people they wanted to keep their lives traditional, full of the old ways and slavery. While the northerners were the manufacturers they had the big cities, lots of factories, over worked and underpaid workers.1 They are both gravely different and see the other side as ruining their definitions of the American way of life.

* 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

Since the beginning, the United States` government, racial slavery had conquered various American identities. “Racism sprung early colonial times due the slavery riot incidence misinterpretations, leading full men, women, and children racial slavery of all different ethnic backgrounds” (Hooker 1). African-Americans held a life long work and Caribbean island shipment originating and affective progression to American colonies. “An importation of 4,000,000 Negroes were held in bondage by Southern planters” (Webstine).Advanced time went, and Northern states nurtured a rapid industrial revolution; Factory introduction, machines, and hired workers replaced any agricultural need of existing slaves. Southern states, however, maintained