American History Help? Please! About North and South?

Question

Dating back to the days of the American Colonies, the North and the South were fundamentally different. The economy of the North was industrial, which the economy of the south was agricultural. These differences contributed greatly to the civil war. Do you think today the North and South are more similar than different?

Answer 1

I just finished a Civil War and Reconstruction class. We read a book called "Confederates in the Attic" that was written with the author checking out the South with a re-enacting group.

He found that the south has a very different culture than the North even today. Southern society still grieves because they lost the war to a certain extent. Families still pass the war stories down through the generations. When someone gets killed for having a Confederate flag it has not changed much.

Amazon.com says....

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz returned from years of traipsing through war zones as a foreign correspondent only to find that his childhood obsession with the Civil War had caught up with him. Near his house in Virginia, he happened to encounter people who reenact the Civil War--men who dress up in period costumes and live as Johnny Rebs and Billy Yanks. Intrigued, he wound up having some odd adventures with the "hardcores," the fellows who try to immerse themselves in the war, hoping to get what they lovingly term a "period rush." Horwitz spent two years reporting on why Americans are still so obsessed with the war, and the ways in which it resonates today. In the course of his work, he made a sobering side trip to cover a murder that was provoked by the display of the Confederate flag, and he spoke to a number of people seeking to honor their ancestors who fought for the Confederacy.

As part of a self-imposed year-long "scheme" to examine the war's contemporary meaning, he does such things as visit a birthday party for Gen. Stonewall Jackson given by the Sons of the Confederacy. He also mulls over his own theories about the lasting legacy of the war, arguing that it was as much a cultural battle between the mores of North and South as a military one.

Answer 2

Ok, I'm a teacher so I'm not going to just give you the answer, but here's some help. Looking at the United States today, the easiest way to come up with this answer is to look at how we divide the US today, into Red States & Blue States. Take at look at this division and see what you can glean from it. Also look at the growth of cities and where this growth in population is occurring. My own opinion is that the North and South are still very different, but in very different ways from the Civil War era. You can argue either way on this if you can back it up.

Answer 3

California transforming into a state the Missouri Compromise John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry Bleeding Kansas the election of Abraham Lincoln each and all of the above occurred in the ten years maximum acceptable as much as the commencing up of the Civil conflict. those are events. i'm unlikely to do all your homework for you. you would be able to desire to learn each and every physique as to how they helped to create stress between the North and the South.

Answer 4

min-wage-$6.00 is still slavery and the borders are down til the quotas are met, corporations are challenged to get profits and are not particular about where they build any more,m so your question is did big brother go south where the labor is cheaper we don't know we thought they went off shore?=meaning they are only as legal as the law requires and we have no idea what is here in America any more or where either, that is the in spectrum of greater risks-greater rewards, and they will have it both ways and send you a bill for the difference too, being an American is severely delusional about learning from our mistakes

Answer 5

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