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'before the war') was a period in the history of the Southern United States that extended from the conclusion of the War of 1812 to the start of the American Civil War in 1861. This era was marked by the prevalent practice of slavery and the associated societal norms it cultivated. Over the course of this period, Southern leaders underwent a ...
"The North is firmly in the grip of a blind and relentless fanaticism and a Lincoln administration would lead inevitably to southern degradation and dishonor." Dew, (p. 46). South Carolina seceded from the Union on 20 December 1860. Six more southern states would follow between December 1860 and January 1861, initiating the American Civil War.
This timeline of events leading to the American Civil War is a chronologically ordered list of events and issues that historians recognize as origins and causes of the American Civil War. These events are roughly divided into two periods: the first encompasses the gradual build-up over many decades of the numerous social, economic, and ...
After a four-year sectional conflict, the Compromise of 1850 narrowly averted civil war with a complex deal in which California was admitted as a free state, including Southern California, thus preventing a separate slave territory there, while slavery was allowed in the New Mexico and Utah territories and a stronger Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 ...
Sunken civil war-era submarine Hunley rediscovered offshore. [1] 1996 100 Black Men of Charleston established. [43] City website online (approximate date). [67] [chronology citation needed] 1997 Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority formed. Charleston City Paper begins publication. Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park stadium opens. 2000
The social structure of the Old South was made an important research topic for scholars by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips in the early 20th century. [3] The romanticized image of the "Old South" tells of slavery's plantations, as famously typified in Gone with the Wind, a blockbuster 1936 novel and its adaptation in a 1939 Hollywood film, along with the animated Disney film, Song of the South (1946).
Charleston was one of leading cities in the South from the colonial era to the Civil War in the 1860s. [1] [2] [page needed] The city grew wealthy through the export of rice and, later, sea island cotton and it was the base for many wealthy merchants and landowners. Charleston was the capital of American slavery. [3]
The onslaught of World War I, World War II and especially the Cold War brought new people and income to the area. A naval air station was established during World War II and transferred to the Marine Corps in the 1950s, thus cementing a major military legacy for the region. A U.S. Naval Hospital located in neighboring Port Royal was also ...