HIST 1230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Yalta Conference, Agricultural Marketing Act Of 1929, Northern Securities Company
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An interpretation of american history civil war through the great depression. Transcribed notes of norman rozeff, age 19, from an american history class at boston. [with the passage of over a half century"s time, revisionist history has revealed numerous other interpretations of this period. ] The civil war was either an irrepressible or repressible conflict. The south was sure it would win if a war came to pass. In the first place the south didn"t expect a war would arise when it seceded. The war could only be avoided if the north gave in completely to the south. The southerners were confident because they psychologically believed that they lived a better physical life, could buy off northern soldiers, and felt that northern politicians were money-grubbing hypocrites. In addition the south believed: 1. cotton was king and that because of this england and france would help it; 2. expected that states in the.
