unit 2

The main difference in culture between the north and south colonies was derived from the basis by which the colonies where formed: the north as religious sanctuaries and the south as investments to produce cash crops. Therefore, the northern culture was religiously based, and focused economically on creating goods to trade or sell, or to hunt or fish for food or furs. In the south, the culture revolved around tending to cash crops such as cotton and tobacco--planting, watering, picking, storing, and shipping. However, because of plantations and slave labor, there were stauts issues that contributed to the culture in the south. For example, the head of a large plantation would not actually go into the fields and pick the crops but would moniter the laborers, whereas the slaves would have no choice but to work. that brings up the point that culture in the south varied from culture in the north due to the fact that there were more extremes in the southern society--wealthy land owner versus poor slave, whereas in the north, most of the society was economically and socially equal.