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How much social mobility was there? The South Continued… Key Concepts & Main Ideas Notes Analysis Many white Americans in the South asserted their regional identity through pride in the institution of slavery, insisting that the federal government should defend that institution. Despite the outlawing of the international slave trade, the rise in the number of free African Americans in both the North and the South, and widespread discussion of various emancipation plans, the U.S. and many state governments continued to restrict African Americans’ citizenship possibilities. Southern Thought… Code of Chivalry… Education… Religion… Food for thought: Colonel is still a badge of honor in the South. Colonel Sanders, for example, proudly embraced his title given to him in Kentucky (a southern state, although “border state” in the war). He was named Colonel in the 1930s, so the romance lives on.(no he never served in the military) Another Kentucky Colonel? Muhammad Ali. Times change! (images captured from kfc.com and wallart.com) Sir Walter Scott was a favorite author of many elite southerners. He wrote many books of chivalry and feudal society that plantation elite identified with. Accused by Mark Twain of having a hand in the Civil War, Scott supposedly aroused southerners to fight for a deteriorating social structure. “It was Sir Walter that made every gentleman in the South a Major or a Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war; and it was he, also, that made those gentlemen value their bogus decorations. For it was he that created rank and caste down there, and also reverence for rank and caste, and pride and pleasure in them. Enough is laid on slavery, without fathering upon it these creations and contributions of Sir Walter. Sir Walter had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the war, which he is in great measure responsible for the war.” Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi. What does this reveal about Southern culture? Local Context: Broad Context: Other Context: How did religion impact sectional tensions? The West, pp 181-182 Key Concepts & Main Notes Following the Louisiana Purchase, the drive to acquire, survey, and open up new lands and markets led Americans into numerous economic, diplomatic, and military initiatives in the Western Hemisphere and Asia. The West… In Colonial Era: In the Revolutionary Era: In 1803: After the Civil War:
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