Historians and economists are, as the Chronicle of Higher Education described, upset at each other about interpretations of slavery. In your own words: what's at stake in these debates?
Review Session scheduling.
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Thursday Oct 5 after dinner (7:00 - 8:00 or so?) Friday Oct 6 around 10 am? Tues Oct 10 (the day before the exam) around 3:00 to 4:00?
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We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
I had for a long time ceased to read newspapers or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands... [But] this mementous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
Jefferson in retirement on slavery, 1820
Characteristics
| Whigs | The "Democracy" |
|---|---|
| National plan for internal development | Isolated state efforts |
| Moral reform through Christian Religion | Resentment of elite interference |
| Anti-Catholic sentiment | Stoke Anti-Indian sentiment |
| Rule of Law | Rule of the People |
| Repress slavery tensions | Repress slavery tensions |
Core Constituencies (Remember individual people will be multiple things!)
| Whigs | The "Democracy" |
|---|---|
| Religious protestants | Irreligious protestants, Catholics, splinter groups |
| Social Reformers | the "Rabble" |
| Northerners and Westerners | Southerners |
| Entrepreneurs and big slaveholders | Freeholding farmers |
Simpsons
Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory. . . The occupation, separation and annexation were, from the inception of the movement to its final consummation, a conspiracy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American Union.
Ulysses S. Grant
"My feeling of shame as an American was far stronger than the Mexicans' could be".