In 1820, 10 percent of the free-state residents lived in urban areas compared with 5 percent in the slave states; by 1860 the figures were 26 percent and 10 percent, respectively. ... This gemeinschaft society, with its emphasis on traditional, rural life, close kinship ties, a hierarchical social structure, ascribed status, patterns of defense, and masculine codes of honor and chivalry, persisted in the South long after the North began moving toward a gesellschaft society with its impersonal, bureaucratic meritocratic, urbanizing commercial, industrializing, mobile and rootless characteristic...

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The early 17th century, society with slaves, allowed slaves some opportunity to lead a decent life. ... In the early 17th century black and white indentured servants from England worked together on plantations, sharing roughly the same quality of life, using English agricultural practices from the motherland. ... Slaves rarely had surnames and family life was truncated, slaves lived on vast estates deep in the countryside and master's restricted movement off the estates, halting any family formation or outside interaction. ... Furthermore, slave codes developed that were fraught with r...

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From the outset, American politics were relatively democratic when one compares it to the political systems of other nations (most of the world's population at this time lived under some variation of autocracy). ...

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