What were the social conditions in the southern colonies?

Question

Im writing an essay comparing and contrasting the social, ethnic, and economic condition in the southern colonies versus those in the other colonies. I mostly need the social and ethnic but i will take what you give me.

Answer 1

Well, for starts the Southern colonies were est. for economic gain & not for religious freedom, so it tended to be more "dog eat dog" than the north.

Answer 2

Well, you may want to read books, cause stuff we say here may or may not be accurate (and if you need to cite sources, well, I don't think the teacher will accept "Yahoo answers!" as a reliable historical source).

As far as I can tell, whites were in charge, and made lots of money from cotton and tobacco. Of course, they didn't do any of the work, their slaves did that, they just merely profited from the slaves.

They also held a "population" advantage early on after the US constitution was written. Blacks counted as 3/5th's of a person when it came to a population census, and because there were many blacks, it gave the southern states a population advantage in the government. But this slowly changed as many more white immigrants came and mostly settled in the north. Slavery was also becoming a touchy issue, and along with other problems, caused the south to secede in the American Civil War (it's a lot more complex than what I can say here right now. Youl'd need to read a couple of chapters worth of materials to be able to get reliable info).

Slavery was not the "cause" of the Civil War, it was the South wanting to have their own rights, and not having some big boss in washington telling them what they could and couldn't do. The north initially fought to preserve the Union, but as the war dragged on, it became more about setting the blacks free (which appealed to Europeans, which made the South look bad).

Answer 3

why are you asking us to help you on this?
Don't you have a book?
Cain't you take a good guess? I think you don't wanna write this essay, because you're trying to get someone else to write it for you.

Come on now, Black people, we were in chains, and white folks had whips and were beating us. Take a wild guess at the social condition, there.

In comparison with the North, where there was still segregation and racism (before Jim Crow, way before) so take a guess there too.

And what do you mean by "ethnic" conditions? By the way, a lot of Indians were being forced into small areas to live, or to assimilate to white society. Unless you mean anooother ethnic group, I don't know. Southern society and lifestyle is its own ethnic group in itself, compared to the North and West.

Economy, that's in the textbook. Look up 3/5 compromise. That will tell you something about the South's economy, and why the Civil War even happened.

You gotta get up off your butt. Buddy.

Don't do this for the class, do it for yourself. Think about how THEY would feel (ancestors) if they knew you was goin on the internet, askin internet people to do your assignment FOR you, on slavery, but looking up the information ourselves and giving it to you. Even if you white.

It doesn't matter because they were Americans too, and outside of that, they were human beings.