HISB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: James Henry Hammond
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The levers of disunion: seeds of a southern nation, preconditions for secession, slaveholder confidence: king cotton, slaveholder fear: the internal crisis of the south. The march to succession: harpers ferry and the election of lincoln, succession as a crisis of fear. Keywords: fire-eaters ; john brown at harpers ferry (1859); fort sumter (april 1861); Emancipation proclamation (1863); thirteenth amendment (ratified 1865); fourteenth. Final exam: tues. , december 16th, 7-9 p. m. , mw170. The crisis of 1849-1850 (the extra land from the mexican war) really sparked the. American civil war as the south threatened to break away from the union. The north felt that the south had no right to leave. The southern questions: can they make it on their own, are they better off outside of the union. Slaves are happier in the south as the slaveholders take care of them. Whites get along with each other more in the north.
