Old and New South

After the Civil War the South experienced many changes to its environment and in its nature. The Civil War greatly affected the South and changed the way the South operated, the war changed the Old South to the New South. The Old South consisted of arrogance, self confidence, racism, and an economy that depended on slave work. Before the Civil War there was a sense of arrogance among the Southern people, they thought that they were going to win the war very easily and that it was going to be a walk in the park for them. The men and the women were so confident before the war that the men were excited to depart for the war, and there were many celebrations among the people of the South before the war had begun. Before the war, the white people in the South took advantage of the black people and used them for slaves for labor, and didn't recognize how terrible that they were treating the african americans and the people had grown accustomed to being waited on by the black people and didn't realize how much they depended on the black people to keep their society going. Once the war had started, most of the men were gone and the women of the south had to do much more work and keep up with most of the men's duties while they were gone. Eventually, the Southerners had learned that they were not prepared to fight the war and didn't have the quality or quantity of weapons the North did, and many towns held drives where the women would donate alot of their jewelry to the men so that they could produce weapons. After the war the South officialy made its transformation into the New South, the New South was poor, due to the fact the economy was down due to no slaves, and destructed from the South's terrible defeat in the war. The people also began to realize their mistreatment to the black people and how they would have to move on without their slavery, and find new ways to boost their economy. The New South was very different compared to the Old South, the economy was in the drain, the land was destructed, and the citizens were going to have to make many personal changes, the Civil War truly had changed Southern Society.