From Document 2, it shows that the South relies on slavery for their economy. According to Document 3, some people in the South, such as Hinton Helper, did not like that, and thought their economy was weak. The North, according to Document 2, had a better economy and made about $1,345,000,000 more yearly in manufactured goods than the South. The South required more and more slaves in order to keep their economy running. Plantations were a big part of the economy in the South because that’s where they grew their cotton, and without slaves, the plantations would die.
On the other hand, the South was all for slavery. They depended on slaves for their agriculture and without them they would not be able to make a living. The South viewed slaves as property and not as people. They thought that The Fugitive Slave Act was only fair because they had bought them for money and that they should be returned. A typical day for a slave would be to wake up at sunrise and work in the fields.
These values are almost contrary to the ideals of the labor movement whose focus was the use of force and other tactics to increase wages, benefits and improve working conditions. Southerners, given that they mostly worked in agriculture, were not forced to deal with some of the dangerous working conditions seen in the industrial cities, and were happy when they were able to provide food for their families. This is not to say that agriculture was not dangerous or that it paid well, only that given the perspective of these people, lacking the exposure of industry and having strong family values, they would have a hard time relating to those who advocate for organizing. As it became increasing apparent that agriculture would not sustain the economies of Southern states, there was a growing atmosphere of anti-union sentiment in the region. Many states enacted right-to-work laws making closed “union only” shops illegal, in an attempt to lure businesses away from their Northern strongholds.
Further quotes to support colonisation due agricultural land is from Andrews as he quotes “one would think that good agricultural land was the first consideration, attracting settlers who could no longer make a living at home, or were positively expelled by their native city like the colonists of Cyrene” as the quote despicably points out the colonisation of Cyrene. A quote by Andrews “We have no hesitation in believing that land hunger was the main stimulus to the colonising movement which began in the latter part of the eighth century, under very different conditions from those of the older migrations. The
Economic differences between the North and the South were a major factor that contributed to the roots of the civil war. The southern states relied on an agriculture based economy that depended on slave labor, whereas, the northern states were less reliant on agriculture and more dependent on industrial production which greatly
The South was heavily depending on the agricultural growth of the region as an economical equalizer for all to take advantage and some did however, in 1877 when the North removed the military control in the South, the Southern white Democrats changed their state’s constitutions and established legal barriers that kept the Black Southerners from voting. To make things worst, in 1913 new laws known as the Jim Crow laws were into place and they made it unlawful for Black Southerners to comingle with White Southerners
This book foresees shortcomings for farmers and their crops as well economic distress. Populism is defined as people who are the under caste of society making a political movement. The farmers felt like they were beat around by big businesses, and felt like they had no political outreach to help them get an equal share for their work production. To oppose this they pulled together and formed the populist group called the Farmer’s Alliance. This helped the lower classes feel like they had some people.
The South could win by literally just outlasting the North’s advantages. Even though the North had soldiers in greater numbers, they had to leave more soldiers behind to secure their already owned land. Which became a weakness for them. The South thought slavery would be good for them. While the white men were fighting, the slaves had to continue laboring on farms or supporting the South’s war efforts.
The Northeast and the South had many differences. One of the differences that they had was that the Northeast was against slavery, they were free states but the South was for slavery, they were slave states. Another difference between them was that the Northeast industrialized while the South got stuck in the past. Meaning the people of the South continued to rely on manual labor while the people of the Northeast invented new machines to do their work for them. In addition to that, in the Northeast women started to have their independence away from the home.
Over a number of years in the eighties, Amish people from towns in Indiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Plain City, Ohio, and Georgia, were interviewed and data was collected. It was found that slowly but surly social change amongst the Amish communities was occurring. Amish are being pressured towards modernization by american capitalist values such as maximum efficiency, quality control by standardization, and most of all competion. It difficult for small Amish farmers to compete with factory farms and large agri-businesses, when their beliefs and values do not allow them access to the necessary resources, and strongly discourage competition for it leads to pride. But in order to survive the Amish are cautiously making minor changes, such as allowing the use of tractors, as long as the wheels are steel not rubber to limit mobility.