HST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sharecropping
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While many americans saw slavery as the major political issue of the day, the. Its members strongly opposed immigrants and followers of the catholic church. While the democrats struggled to remain a national party in the years leading up to the civil war, the newly organized republican party focused on one issue. In 1857, pro-slavery forces met in lecompton, kansas, drafted a pro-slavery constitution and applied for statehood. Massachusetts senator charles sumner was attacked by congressman brooks. Following the election of 1860, seven states seceded from the union before lincoln even took office. The south was concerned that lincoln would end slavery, and how it would change their way of live if he did. Most military experts in europe actually picked the confederacy to win the civil war. It had a near monopoly on the cotton trade with europe, which meant that they could almost certainly leverage britain and other european nations into fighting for them.
