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    Southern United States Culture The Southern United States is a very interesting place, full of culture and history, such as the Civil War battlefields or the antique shops that you see along the side of the road as you drive through this beautiful part of the United States. It has many different characteristics and many different special things that make it unique. Globalization and Identity, Ethnicity, Religion, The Social Construction of Race, Gender Roles, Class, Places and Spaces (Regional

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    and Southern United States both started their history differently. The South was mostly into farming, while the North was more about the industry. Both regions also had sectional differences in the way tariffs and slavery were intertwined. Since there were unfair tariffs that tested dominate leaders like the Britain Crown, many rebellions have been staged. The North and South in the United States did have many differences between each other, but they eventually came together as a united country

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    United states were consist of southern state and northern states. The northern state was consist almost all about the white people. The southern state was consist of almost all the colored people. They were in one union of United States. Somehow, the southern state start to secede from the union after the election of President Lincoln. There were some issues that make them need to secede from the union. Start from the issues about the slavery that banned by the government, taxation, and trade process

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    The succession of the eleven southern states significantly impacted the United States and its citizens during the years of 1860 and 1861. Many people are curious as to why, after many years of unification and prosperity, the North and South would find it necessary to split apart. Many aspects contributed to the southern states decision to succeed from the union including: the diverse perspectives on the emancipation of slavery, the South’s belief it was capable of being self sufficient, as well as

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    there were high tensions between the Northern United States and the Southern United States. One of the main causes of the tensions between the Northern and Southern States of the United States was Slavery. After the United States won the United States-Mexican War there was a large portion of new land for the United States but there was one problem. The Northern part of the United States did not want to have slavery but the Southern part of the United States wanted slavery. To compromise they split the

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    Critical Review: "Historians and the Extent of Slave Ownership in the Southern United States" "Only a minority of the whites owned slaves," "at all times nearly three-fourths of the white families in the South as a whole held no slaves;" "slave ownership in the South was not widespread;" "not more than a quarter of the white heads of families were slave owners, and even in the cotton states the proportion was less than one-third;" "in 1850, only one

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    United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has been working to build regional and interagency partnerships to ensure the continued stability of the Western Hemisphere and the forward defense of the U.S. homeland for more than fifty years. U.S. Southern Command is responsible to the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States for national security interests through roughly one half of this hemisphere – 31 countries, 16 dependencies and areas of special sovereignty, and approximately

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    Southern White Democrats The Republican Party seems to be increasing the gap between rich and poor, discriminating against others, pursuing self-interest over the common good and just downright corrupt. But, where does that leave me? As a white living in black house and senate districts I have no chance in the race based politics within the Democratic Party. And as a progressive, I have no place in the Republican Party. Is my choice to sit back and let both sides screw up Georgia? I long for a day

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    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

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    gendered structure of their society. “Paternalism presented an un-threatening maternal argument to advocate for something that gave women a very masculine sense of the agency in their homes and society”(Cole 15). There have been many times where Southern women that were against slavery, would claim to be the mother figures for their slaves; they would help the slaves by giving them a shelter, food and allowing them to have a better life than if they were on their own, so they would say that : slavery

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