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Compare And Contrast The North And South After The Civil War

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Conclusion During the first half of the 19th century, the North and South both experienced important economic, demographic, political, and cultural changes. With development of cotton agriculture, Southerners became increasingly tied to the system of labor that provided their economic security slavery. Meanwhile, during the same years, the North moved toward free labor and an increasingly diverse economy (industrialization, urbanization, western settlement). The sectional differences that began to divide the regions were not only economic, but also ideological, cultural, political and social. Slavery shaped Southern culture giving rise to proslavery thought and states rights ideology In part these social and political ideals were shaped by …show more content…

Slavery) became an increasingly important political commitment The American Civil War and the Era of Reconstruction that followed right after the war is seen by almost everyone as a major watershed, perhaps the major watershed in American history.Finally we know that from the African perspective, reconstruction was a missed opportunity. A missed opportunity to hold America up to its ideals of equality and justice, an opportunity it failed to take advantage of. So now we have more honesty connected with the Civil War and reconstruction and hopefully public policy and individual relationship sAfter the Congressional Reconstruction Act of 1867, whenconventions were called in the southern states to create new constitutions, and these conventions included freed slaves and some of their white allies, those were the conventions that created a public school system in the South and the energy to create that system came out of the energy of emancipation and this link of literacy and liberation that was so strongly embedded in the former slave communities by the fact that literacy was illegal for them. And so in the 1860s and 1870s the Southern states created a pubic schoolsystem. After 1876, after the end of Reconstruction, that became a segregated system, called separate but equal, and we all know separate but quite

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