HIST 1050 Final: HISTORY EXAM NOTES.docx
8 May 2014
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There was a brief phase act in 1838: lincoln didn"t want an extension of slavery in new areas. Economic factors: england became a manufacturing society, us used us slaves. Cotton came from us slave youth: us south grew 60% of the world"s cotton. Us north benefitted from cotton consumption and trade: us slavery integral to the economy. Willian lloyd garrison: radical abolitionist, wanted slavery to become the issue. Road to emancipation: lincoln: recognize constitutionality of slavery but prevent extension to new territories. Elected president in 1860: october 1859: john brown insurrection in virginia, south carolina secede in december 1860 to be followed by others. Not all slave: war terrifying destructive and seen in sacrificial terms. The nation should be states secede. purged in fire: abolition by president proclamation in jan 1861, designed to disrupt confederacy and order racial relations in occupied territories, proclamation only applied in 1861 to blacks within unoccupied confederate states.
