Gilded Age Analysis
This essay is a summarization of what occurred in the United States before and after the civil war between Northern American and Southern America. Throughout the essay ideas and concepts from class are discussed, quotes from Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: Second Edition by Leon Fink, along with quotes from the book Southern Crossing: A History of the American South, 1877 - 1906 by Edward L. Ayes, and other outside sources sited within the passage.
As a series of “island communities” as mention in The Search for Order by Robert. H. Wiebe, communication was separated and individualized to the colony in which one lived in. (Wiebe) The lack of connection between the colonies brought on by the physical distance amongst …show more content…
Southern America, however, thrived from the slave labor of African Americans brought over from Africa or native Americans enslaved by the “old immigration” European settlers. Cotton, grown from the hard labor of black slaves dominated the southern market place. As mentioned in the book Southern Crossing: A History of the American South, 1877 - 1906 by Edward L. Ayes, cotton brought with it problems such as tenancy among races, fewer live stocks and less grain. This reliance on cotton created a whole in the Southern economy due to the heavy reliance on its production. (Ayes) The entire Southern financial stability relied on whether there was a good crop season or sale on the trade market. This issue became the major problem faced by Southern American after the civil war. The Southern economy did not know how to produce wealth as it once did in the past, after formal slavery was abolished when the thirteenth amendment was passed in …show more content…
Southern actions under the Jim Crow even was taken a step further, were an African-American could not even dear to act according to the rights given to him or her or they would be lynched. To combat these ethical violations of African-American civil rights the fourteenth which granted African-American and slaves the right to be American citizens and fifteenth amendments which gave African Americans the right to vote were
As a series of “island communities” as mention in The Search for Order by Robert. H. Wiebe, communication was separated and individualized to the colony in which one lived in. (Wiebe) The lack of connection between the colonies brought on by the physical distance amongst …show more content…
Southern America, however, thrived from the slave labor of African Americans brought over from Africa or native Americans enslaved by the “old immigration” European settlers. Cotton, grown from the hard labor of black slaves dominated the southern market place. As mentioned in the book Southern Crossing: A History of the American South, 1877 - 1906 by Edward L. Ayes, cotton brought with it problems such as tenancy among races, fewer live stocks and less grain. This reliance on cotton created a whole in the Southern economy due to the heavy reliance on its production. (Ayes) The entire Southern financial stability relied on whether there was a good crop season or sale on the trade market. This issue became the major problem faced by Southern American after the civil war. The Southern economy did not know how to produce wealth as it once did in the past, after formal slavery was abolished when the thirteenth amendment was passed in …show more content…
Southern actions under the Jim Crow even was taken a step further, were an African-American could not even dear to act according to the rights given to him or her or they would be lynched. To combat these ethical violations of African-American civil rights the fourteenth which granted African-American and slaves the right to be American citizens and fifteenth amendments which gave African Americans the right to vote were