HIST 211 Lecture 1: Hist 211 notes

• School: Winthrop University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 211
• Professor: Gillikin

Document Summary

Fire eaters- people who were advocating to go to war, wanted to go to war to protect slavery. The t(cid:449)o party"s dissol(cid:448)es: there (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)es a (cid:272)ollapse i(cid:374) alig(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts, politi(cid:272)al parties (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:373)ore a(cid:271)out where people are from rather than what the parties are (sectionalism) Reasons for the start of the civil war: Misconnection between the north and south- every time there was a law passed against slaves and slave owners, the south thought that there was a conspiracy against them. People wanted more money and power (both people in the north and the south) Political differences between the north and the south. The secession crisis: the south wanting to secedes from the union. La(cid:272)k of religious (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)tio(cid:374): sla(cid:448)es ha(cid:448)e a la(cid:272)k of religious, the o(cid:449)(cid:374)ers (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t allo(cid:449) the slaves to have religious views.