HIST 1100 Lecture 4: College Bowl 5
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27 june 2016: who are the fire-eaters and why were they called such? (lecture 6/24) A: fire-eaters were politicians, mostly democrats, which came from the cotton kingdom area that wanted to go on record as being for or against slavery. They were called fire- eaters because they were going into a hot debate about slavery: what did filibustering mean back in the 19th century? (lecture 6/24) A: in the 19th century, filibustering meant to participate in a private military expedition to invade other countries, even ones that the us was at peace with: which state was the first to secede from the union? (pg. A: south carolina, which had the highest percentage of slaves as well: in the lincoln-douglas debates, what did abraham lincoln and stephen a. douglas each view freedom as? (pg. A: to lincoln, freedom meant opposition to slavery.
