uring the time of the Revolution to the end of the Civil War there were a few depressions. It started in 1819 when there was an economic panic, which ushered into a 4-year depression. Then in 1837 there was another economic panic, which began a depression that lasted until 1843. As this depression set in the cotton prices started to drop. In 1839 the Bank of the United States failed. Then in 1873 there was another economic panic, which started a depression for the next 5 years. The Civil War did not ruin the national economy, only the southern part of it. The South lost about 60 percent of its wealth due to the offset of Northern advances. At the end of the Civil War the North had most of the nations wealth and capacity for production. This caused the United States to step forward as the worlds leading industrial nation. *Religious Beliefs and OrganizingBetween the time of the Revolution and Civil War there was much reform in Religion for the new nation. This time was the Second Great Awakening, which had a great impact on American religious life. It produced a new, excited form of preaching. The structure of worship services changed to increased participation. The idea of Revivalism (emphasizes individual religious experience rather than the doctrines of a specific church) also increased through the new nation. Between the North and South the Bible was an issue that had a lot of cooperation. African American religion contained a lot of values that carried over with the slave from Africa. Few had Christian beliefs. Africans differed from each other in their specific beliefs and practices. The Methodists and Baptists started to make major efforts on converting slave to Christianity. *Social / Cultural Patterns and AttitudesAfter the Revolution, relationships between members of different classes, races, and genders started to change due to the Declaration of Independence and the dislocations caused by the war.Before t...
