answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

Southern gentlemen liked to adopt codes of chivalry, partly because of their ancestral links with the Cavaliers of the English Civil War (with the North easily recognisable as the opposing Puritans.)

Mark Twain believed that these romantic mannerisms were also copied from the immensely popular novels of Sir Walter Scott.

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: How did honor affect the southern life in the years prior to the civil war?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

What were the northern and southern strength and weaknesses prior to the civil war?

i need this answer for my worksheet


Was the planter class was the upper class of people in southern society prior to the civil war?

Yes.


What were some issues the north and the south had prior to the civil war?

Slavery! The SOuthern States had the cotton industry that the North depended no.


What were the Southern states called prior to American Civil War?

Prior to the US Civil War, Southern states were sometimes referred to as slave holding states. Technically and in reality, until the Civil War, all US states were called US states. This is not some way to marginalize the antebellum period of the US.


What did southern states begin to do prior to the start of the civil war?

They seceded from the Union and set up an independent federation of States: the Confederacy.


What did the eleven states that seceded the union form?

Prior to the Civil War, southern states seceded to form their own country; the Confederate States of America.


What power of the Constitution justified the actions of the southern states prior to the Civil War?

The Supreme Court's decision that slavery enjoyed total protection by the Constitution.


The relative absence of enterprises engaged in manufacturing and finance prior to the civil war in the southern states is most likely due to?

the dependence on cotton farming in the South


When did lee write this letter to his son?

just prior to the Civil War


What was the main cash crops of the southern states before the civil war?

major crop of the southern colonies prior to the civil war


What form of government did the southern states have during the Civil War (1861-1865)?

what form of government did the southern states have during the civil war 1861-1865? idk i think it's a Confederacy NO IT IS A CONFEDERACY I GOT THIS!!


Who was the leading black spokesman for the emancipation of slaves prior to the civil war?

Who was the most Famous spokesman for Blacks prior to the Civil War?