HIS272H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Millard Fillmore, Preston Brooks, Missouri Compromise
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Crisis of the union: contextualizing growing sectionalism and southern defensiveness. 1894, us sends fleet to japan to establish trade and alliance. Japanese was reluctant, but ultimately they were wowed with what the us had on their ships and agreed to establish trades. Perry"s adventure considered a success for the states. Everything in the ships was made in the north and represents the industrialist things to come, not the southern interests. Had world fairs that each country would represent their awesome goods and technology. South is starting to feel that it"s being left behind as these international trade events are happening and as northerners telling southerners to start industrializing and incorporate wage labor to get to that process. Cotton"s reign starts to become challenged when it was previously very important. Southern start to want to defend their way of life. Uncle tom"s cabin is a book that portrays slaves in a positive light and becomes a popular book.
