The lifestyle of American women was never the same since the Civil War had begun. It was unimaginable for a Victorian-era woman to work as a nurse, volunteer, or fight on a battlefield, but that was exactly what females did in the Civil War. Colonial America has fully adopted the “Cult of a True Womanhood”. Females were supposed to create a clean and comfortable living and please their husbands as they came home from the workplace. But the feminist revolution had already hung in the air, and the Civil War accelerated this process. After the war started in 1861, women joined in
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The Underground Railroad was a secret weapon of abolitionists. More than a means of transportation, the Railroad was the organization that helped fugitives in every possible way. It aimed to help more slaves escape to Canada where they would be no longer persecuted by the US law. Slave owners had the right to find their slaves and bring them back, therefore, abolitionists had to be especially careful moving slaves. Many black people tried to escape themselves, but it was much securer to use the service of fellow abolitionists. The Railroad did not imply any particular way out of the country. Abolitionists
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In such a large and diverse country as the US, the civil war was inevitable. The Northern and Southern states developed differently and pursued different goals. While the North was an industrialized economy that started hiring immigrants as a cheap workforce, the South tightly clang to its slaves. The agrarian economy of the Southern states held entirely on a huge number of African slaves, and the few landlords who owned them did not want to change the situation. However, abolitionism and arguments between states pushed the conflict to the edge. Discrepancies between the North and the South led to secession, in
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The 19th century saw a clear strive for abolitionism. Slaves were very productive to their owners and all the America, however, they did not quite fit in the notion “the land of the free and brave”. Different people advocated giving freedom to slaves. Some of them took a moderate position calling for a gradual abolition. The others were radical; many of them pushed abolitionism for religious reasons. Abolitionism became clear in churches in the North of the country creating certain hostility between the North and the South. Regional arguments, including the point of slavery, have driven the country to the
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Using labor force is very characteristic for Southern states of the 19th century. The region had enough of fertile soil, and favorable climate turned it into the primary agricultural site in the United States. The lands were huge, and it was actually impossible for the landlords to do without slaves. Without a large number of cheap and unpaid laborers, it would be impossible to achieve such a huge economic growth America saw before the Civil War. It is hard to underestimate the economic impact of slavery on Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Their developing economies were entirely based on production and export
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