Before the Civil War the South faced cultural struggles. Cultural struggle is the total of the inherited ideas, beliefs, values, and knowledge, which constitute the shared bases of social action. The South faced many cultural struggles before and during the Civil War. One cultural struggle faced by the south was the lack of food. The south faced food shortages because the union blockade prevented food from entering the south. Another reason that food was short was because the south had too feed there army wich consisted of men from farms. Furthermore if the men were fighting in the war they were not at home to plant and harvest crops, so that left it up to the woman. Since it was left up to the woman who normally did not do all the field