2nd Lecture Civil War & Reconstruction WHAT CAUSED THE CIVIL WAR? A. Longtermissues: 1. The Missouri Compromise (1820) 2. The abolitionist movement (1830s+) 3. The Liberty Party and political abolitionism (1840-48) 4. The Wilmot Proviso (1846) 5. Free Soil Party (1848+) B. Neartermissues: 1. The Compromise of 1850 2. Fugitive Slave Act of 1851 and reactions to it 3. Harriet Beecher Stowe?s Uncle Tom?s Cabin (1852) 4. Southern responses to antislavery critiques: i. DeBow?s ?economic vassalage? theme, 1852 ii. George Fitzhugh?s Sociology for the South (1854) ii. James Hammond?s ?King Cotton?/?mudsill? theme, 1858 5. Southern expansionists i. Manifest Destiny and ?Young America? movement within the Democratic Party, 1852 ii. Ostend Manifesto, 1854
Civil War Causes/Effects
2nd Lecture Civil War & Reconstruction WHAT CAUSED THE CIVIL WAR? A. Longtermissues: 1. The Missouri Compromise (1820) 2. The abolitionist movement (1830s+) 3. The Liberty Party and political abolitionism (1840-48) 4. The Wilmot Proviso (1846) 5. Free Soil Party (1848+) B. Neartermissues: 1. The Compromise of 1850 2. Fugitive Slave Act of 1851 and reactions to it 3. Harriet Beecher Stowe?s Uncle Tom?s Cabin (1852) 4. Southern responses to antislavery critiques: i. DeBow?s ?economic vassalage? theme, 1852 ii. George Fitzhugh?s Sociology for the South (1854) ii. James Hammond?s ?King Cotton?/?mudsill? theme, 1858 5. Southern expansionists i. Manifest Destiny and ?Young America? movement within the Democratic Party, 1852 ii. Ostend Manifesto, 1854
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