#8 Analyze the economic consequences of the Civil War with respect to any two of the following in the United States between 1865 and 1880. Agriculture Labor Industrialization Transportation On April 9th, 1865, General Robert E. Lee, captain of the Confederate army surrendered to the Uni...

Southern Thought Reexamined George Fitzhugh in "Southern Thought" presents an argument of a new society in the South. The South must take for granted the fact that slavery is right and that a new ideology, a new philosophy must be created off the south's foundation of an agricultura...

Consequences of the civil war The time following the civil war was hard for the South economically. However they were not the only ones who were having problems. The only difference is that other parts of the United States were very prosperous. One major issue, no matter what part of the co...

It is virtually impossible to answer the question of whether America's farmers or industrial workers had it worse in the period 1865 through 1916, because issues of gender, culture, and race make it difficult, if not impossible, to generalize about people in either occupation. Furthermore, reg...

The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history. It lasted from 1861- 1865.The war divided so many people living in the United States. The war was between theNorthern people which had a more up to date way of living and wanted to end slavery andan agricultural way of life. The Sout...

Societal Separations Southern economic growth was different then that of the North. Northerners looked down towards the Southern way of living. The South was still mainly a rural area, while industry was growing hastily in the North. Some Southerners wanted industrial growth, but the factories in ...

Until American Civil War, the industrial development was not powerful in America. Most of industries were depend on the Europe. However, the America industries developed the most powerful in 1900. during the nineteen centuries, many inventions helped to developed industries in America. For example, ...

The American Civil War Overview of Causes and Outcomes The American Civil War, which was also known as the War Between The States, in the history of United States of America was a 4 year war which began in 1861 and concluded in 1865. The war was between the Federal Government of the United Stat...

The Civil War began in 1861 with the conflict at Fort Sumter, South Carolina and ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant in Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia in 1865. However, the sectional conflict between the North and the South began long before the war. Many people believe the main c...

The three main causes of the American Civil War were the unusual political structure of the nation at the time, the differing economic structure of the regions of the United States, and the differing social structures and views at the time. All three issues, however, revolved around the issue of sla...

At the ending point of the war the articles of confederation were starting to show flaws. The articles were made of a weak central government and strong state governments. This combination allowed for the sections of the United States to grow farther apart by allowing them to pass laws that would no...

Civil War IN THIS meeting of the Southern Historical Association great emphasis has been placed upon a re-examination of numerous phases of our history relating to the Civil War. While several papers have dealt with certain forces which helped bring about the Civil War, none has attempte...

African American Culture Culture is not a fixed phenomenon, nor is it the same in all places or to all people. It is relative to time, place, and particular people. Learning about other people can help us to understand ourselves and to be better world citizens. One of the most common ways of...

The rise of the United States as a world power in the twentieth century was based on the reation of a specialized regional structure in the nineteenth century. Four major elements helped evolve America¡s nineteenth century regional structure from the agriculture based, post-independence country tha...

3. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 3.1. Historical Background 3.1.1. The U.S Civil War "War is a hellish way to settle a disagreement" The American Civil War (1861 - 1865) was one of the most violent times in the History of the United States. Many books have been written on all aspects of the Civil War...

More than one million people dead and a nation was torn apart. \"A fight against slavery\" it was said, but was that the main reason the war was fought? Or is that just what our nation says to glorify our past? There were many factors that contributed to the United States\' Civil War, but the main ...

Issue of Slavery In order for the south to remain strong and compete against other states, cotton had to keep flourishing, and for that to happen slavery was a necessity. Slave labor was required at all times, because it was such a useful crop. Also the South's climate was especially suited to t...

Slavery is the South Essay #3 Slavery played a dominating and critical role in much of Southern life. In the struggle for control in America, slavery was the South's stronghold and the hidden motive behind many political actions and economic statistics. By dominating Southern life, sla...

James Monroe was president during the "Era of Good Feelings". It was called that because there were few political battles and his Democratic-Republican party ruled almost unopposed. It was a transitional period in which the nations democratic institutions and capitalist economy were takin...

Just judging from the "tale of the tape" immediately before the Second American Revolution broke out, it is amazing that the South managed to battle so valiantly for so long, dragging out the fight for several years, before finally being forced to give in to the North. The North possessed ...

The Gilded Age brought about many reforms in many ways affecting basically all ways of life of the people in America. The churches started their change with the physical appearance of the churches. The church house went from a homely little building to an extravagant building representing the wealth...

The Primary Cause of the American Civil War: Economics More than one million people dead and a nation torn apart. \"A fight against slavery\" it was said, but was that the main reason the war was fought? Or is that just what our nation says to glorify our past? There were many factors that contr...

There were many strengths of both the union and confederate states. But the most abundant strengths belonged to the Union. Such was the very large population. This enabled the Yanks to have more people to go to war, more people to work the industry, more people to supply goods by farming them, and m...

In the essay, Maturation of the Plantation System 1776-1860, John B. Boles writes about the evolution of the Southern way of life from the end of the Revolutionary war to the beginning of the Civil war. Unlike the North, the South depended on agricultural products for revenue such as sugar, indigo,...

There is a lot of controversy as to why the U.S. Civil War started. Historians believe it was merely a difference in the two cultures. The U.S. Civil War was mainly started because of a difference in these two cultures. The South had an agricultural economy, and the North had a manufacturing econ...