HIST 2055 Lecture : FINAL Notes
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There was now a working class that aren"t land owners. This causes a problem because landowners are worried that these people might vote against them. (ex. Interpreting the message: working to bring god"s vision in the world, trying to turn away from calvinism, change starts in the churches (radical movements, women"s reform, anti-slavery. The mexican war: start: an offensive war, they come by land, sea, and from the california coast, the excuse, popular war. It cuts between party identity, makes a northern and southern block (dividing the american people: sectional voting, irritant, they voted on the proviso many times, always same result. The problem of sectionalism: geographic political divides, reality v. perception. Inventing the republicans: lineage, came from changes in economy and industrialization, anti-slavery, stands against opportunity and progress, in conflict with modernity, slavery isn"t efficient and it corrupts politics, white southerners were being over represented in government.
