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Describe the different groups that made up southern society. What challenges did free African Americans face in the South? How did the majority of white southern families acquire slaves?
Describe the nature of the Southern economy in the pre-Civil War period. There was a decline in the tobacco economy in the upper South and limits with the sugar and rice economy in the Southeast, so many Southern farmers began to focus more on growing short-staple cotton.
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2.1 Economic Development, Nominal Wage Flexibility, and Antebellum Labor Markets America experienced several expansions and contractions in economic ac- tivity between its founding and the Civil War. The Embargo of 1807 abruptly ended the export boom of the Napoleonic Wars, a recession followed the War
This essay surveys some of the key themes in Southern economic history and traces the development of the region through the colonial and revolutionary eras, the antebellum period, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the post-bellum period, and the modern period.
Assess the distribution of wealth in the antebellum South; Describe the southern culture of honor; Identify the main proslavery arguments in the years prior to the Civil War
Before the Civil War per capita income and growth in the South compared favorably to per capita income and growth in the North (Fogel 1989: 85). Compared to other countries, and especially other Western slave economies, the South was a success.
