In a typed, double-spaced essay of 4-5 pages, or about 1,000-1,200 words, answer this question:
What were some of the changes that the Civil War brought to the American South? How did southerners respond to these changes politically, economically, and culturally? Did the nostalgia that Southerners had for the Old South help or hurt the South’s efforts to recover from the Civil War?
In your essay, you may use anything we’ve read thus far in class. Be sure to cite your sources, particularly if you paraphrase or directly quote from them.
