HI330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: 1860 Republican National Convention, Preston Brooks, Expansionism
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Hi330 slavery, expansionism and escalating sectional conflict. Back as far as the introduction of the first slaves to north america. Ties to the fracturing of the nation that leads to the civil war. During the revolution what shape the government should take. Conflicts between free states and slave labour states. Disjunction between the south"s perception that the government is always out to get them and the federal government is their enemy. Revolution had created the largest slave holding republic but one that felt insecure from the beginning. As soil became exhausted in some parts of the upper south some believed that they needed to move west and needed to be allowed to bring slavery with them to the. Fears that free states will join the us and eventually the southern slave states would become outnumbered by the southern free states. Even southerners that remained in the old south, they felt passionately by extending slavery to the farthest western territories.
