Week 12: The Impending Crisis
Lecture 1: Territorial Expansion, 1830s-1850s
Lecture 2: The Impending Crisis
Tutorial: Secession Debates
Essential Readings:
Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/reasons.html#SouthCarolina
Speech of E.S. Dargan, in the Convention of Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861 http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/bama4.html
Letter of S.F. Hale, Commissioner of Alabama to the State of Kentucky, to Gov. Magoffin of Kentucky http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/hale.html
"What Is the True Issue?"The Daily Picayune (New Orleans) November 4, 1860 http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/picune.html
Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/al16/speeches/lincoln1.htm
Battle Hymn of the Republic http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/bathymn.html
Questions:
What reasons did pro-war Southerners give for their desire to leave the Union? What part did slavery play in the coming of the war? How did Unionists and Confederates differently understand the concepts of liberty, freedom, and equality? What factors do you think account for their different understandings?
Further Reading: The Impending Crisis
Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970).
William Freehling. The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).
Michael Holt, The Political Crisis of the 1850s (New York: Wiley, 1978)
Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low County (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (New York: Harper & Row, 1976).
Kenneth Stampp, ed. The Causes of the Civil War , 3d rev. ed. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991)
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