Surprisingly enough, modern historians have rarely interested themselves in the history of the American South in the period before the South began to become self-consciously and distinctively " Southern"—the decades after 1815. Consequently, the cultural history of Britain’s North American empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been written almost as if the Southern colonies had never existed. The American culture that emerged during the Colonial and Revolutionary eras has been depicted as having been simply an extension of New England Puritan culture.
However, Professor Davis has recently argued that the South stood apart from the rest of American society during this early period, following its own unique pattern of cultural development. The case for Southern distinctiveness rests_ upon two related premises: first, that the cultural similarities among the five Southern colonies were far more impressive than the differences, an
A. The southern colonies had never existed before 17C
B. Historians nowadays ignore it for some reason unknown
C. The American culture during the Colonial era was actually New England Puritan Culture
D. People today think that history was not recorded by government
Surprisingly enough, modem historians have rarely interested themselves in the history of the American South in the period before the South began to become self-consciously and distinctively "Southern"——the decades after 1815. Consequently, the cultural history of Britain’s North American empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been written almost as if the Southern colonies had never existed. The American culture that emerged during the Colonial and Revolutionary eras has been depicted as having been simply an extension of New England Puritan culture. However, Professor Davis has recently argued that the South stood apart from the rest of American society during this early period, following its own unique pattern of cultural development. The case for Southern distinctiveness rests upon two related premises: first, that the cultural similarities among the five Southern colonies were far more impressive than the differences, and second, t
A. Thus, without the cultural diversity represented by the American South, the culture of colonial America would certainly have been homogeneous in nature
B. Thus, the contribution of Southern colonials to American culture was certainly overshadowed by that of the Puritans
C. Thus, convergence, not divergence, seems to have characterized the cultural development of the American colonies in the eighteenth century
D. Thus, the culture of America during the Colonial period was far more sensitive to outside influence than historians are accustomed to acknowledge
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