HST 501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 1860 United States Census, Atlantic Slave Trade, American Civil War
29 Oct 2017
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Historiography: the history of history, how we right and perceive history, the idea of history changing. Lincoln"s second inaugural address: he said all knew that slavery was somehow the cause of the war(cid:499) On the eve of the war william seward is going to say there"s an irreparable conflict, There was not way of coming to compromise to establish the because they seem to be defending the constitution and democracy. Economic determinist argument: this was a war in which. Charles and mary beard: the war is not a civil war but a second american revolution, argued it was a social war with agricultural society and industrial society. Lewis hacker: the hacker-beard thesis: the american civil war turned out to be an. Union claimed they were defending the constitution and the south argued that the north was rebelling the constitution. Ethno cultural divide (neo confederacy): not about economics but about culture,
