Describe the culture the South in the 1800’s.

Southern culture was strongly shaped by religion. Before the American Revolution, the Anglican Church served as the established church throughout the southern colonies. The rise of Protestant evangelicalism in the 1740s posited a fledgling alternative to the Anglican establishment. For evangelicals, the conversion experience was upheld as a universally attainable route to spiritual salvation. It employed highly emotional sermons and liturgies—many of them at large, interdenominational, outdoor camp meetings—to facilitate this conversion experience among believers.

Explanation:

The South had small farms and big plantations. They grew cotton, tobacco, corn, sugar, and rice. Most slaves lived on big plantations. Many Southerners wanted slavery.

The South was agricultural.

The population was 9 million people.

The South had small farms and big plantations.

They grew cotton, tobacco, corn, sugar, and rice.

Most slaves lived on big plantations.

Many Southerners wanted slavery.

The South wanted strong states’ rights.

States’ rights means the states decide their government.

The South wanted to separate from the United States.

The South made a new country, “The Confederate States of America.”

Robert E. Lee was the military leader.

Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate States.