... the master and the slave. Fortunately, masters were conditioned by English custom to provide food and shelter for their servants, thus slaves were adequately supplied necessities. Since the slave codes had not yet been put into place, slaves had the freedom of movement and were able to bargain with the master. Some slave owners were harsher while others allowed ... class- now controlled the economy, politics and social customs. Labor was the engine of the economy; only raw power could sustain this new system of slavery, thus slavery became a permanent institution. The new generation had ...

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... factors towards the secession of the south. 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 characteristics. Above ... ...

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... economic qualms (resentment of the wealthy or disapproval of colonial economic policies) and sometimes religious discord (resentment of the dominance of Anglicanism, especially) spurred the creation of both temporary and permanent political interest groups that involved average Americans in the political process and allowed for serious changes in policies. The colonists were thus given a critical means to affect their own destinies ... ...

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