As well as farmers whose farmland was wiped out by Union forces. The lack of a market for Southern goods after being cut off from the North left the South vulnerable economically. A similar situation presented itself regarding the South’s staunch defense of its lifestyle and its romanticization of its past, in the form of the anti-federalist movement that arose at the end of the 18th century to oppose the ratification of the 1787 constitution.Similarly to the SOuth after the Civil War, anti-federalists sw the idea of a expanding, federal government as prone to violating their freedom and surpassing the power of states. The anti-federalist position rejected governmental interference just as southerners fiercely rejected the idea of abolition at first, choosing to sece and even wage war to defend their ideals against powerful, federal government,a dn after their defeat, they still attempt to preserve their way of life. This ideological satnce following the proposal of ratifying the consituon of 1787, called for a return to what was see an America’s roots in a agarian bases society composed of landwoning
As well as farmers whose farmland was wiped out by Union forces. The lack of a market for Southern goods after being cut off from the North left the South vulnerable economically. A similar situation presented itself regarding the South’s staunch defense of its lifestyle and its romanticization of its past, in the form of the anti-federalist movement that arose at the end of the 18th century to oppose the ratification of the 1787 constitution.Similarly to the SOuth after the Civil War, anti-federalists sw the idea of a expanding, federal government as prone to violating their freedom and surpassing the power of states. The anti-federalist position rejected governmental interference just as southerners fiercely rejected the idea of abolition at first, choosing to sece and even wage war to defend their ideals against powerful, federal government,a dn after their defeat, they still attempt to preserve their way of life. This ideological satnce following the proposal of ratifying the consituon of 1787, called for a return to what was see an America’s roots in a agarian bases society composed of landwoning