From the time our ancestors landed and colonized what is now American there was trouble brewing. The trouble was bred from the split between the North and the South and their inhabitants. When men came to the south to find gold and to the north to find religious freedom roots were planted which proved to lead to an inevitable clash of ideals. After the revolutionary war was won and our indepenedence garnted our government was formed. This government took into account the different interests of these two areas of the country. Sacrifices were mmade and agrreance found, but this would not last ecen 100 years. The differences between north and south in the Unieted States which included origins, geography, economics and culture ultimamatley led to the atrocity which nearly led to our nations demise; the American Civil War.
English: Looking south from Top of the Rock, New Y...
English: A composed satellite photograph of North ...
Southern United StatesIN the summer of 1606, King James I granted a charter to a group of English entrepreneurs to establish an English colony in the Chesapeake region of North America. 108 settlers were then instructed to settle Virginia, find gold and a water route to the Orient.The group entrepenuares granted the chrter to settle this area, the Virgina Co., could not have chosen a worse group of people to send on this journey. Those sent were described as Gentleman, thus unknowing of anything it took to survive in the wilderness. Not to mention, they were all men. Planning on making their money quick and returning to their families in England they did not plan for the necessity of procreation. None the less, these men somehow survived. This is the formation of the first southern colony. Its orgins in money and its men of gentlkeman's culture.
Thirteen years later, 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts at a place they named...