HSTY1076 : HSTY1076 - Lincoln to Clinton notes
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Republicans: before republicans, other party were the wigs emphasised building infrastructure, higher taxation, foreign trade etc. Lincoln: lincoln was part of the moral perfectionist impulse, lincoln didn"t want secession but south viewed him with great suspicion. North: beginning in cities like new york, boston, philadelphia, cleveland, Secession: south carolina followed by other slave states (georgia, alabama, Arkansas, virginia etc. ) left the union ostensibly because they see in. Started mini guerrilla wars, burning crops, fleeing behind union army lines: north was losing morale. Emancipation proclamation, unofficially made the war explicitly about ending slavery. ), which bled over into economic development post- war. Memphis, new orleans etc. killing blacks, disciplined military squads marching into conventions where blacks and whites are trying to form. The lost cause" idea arising in reconstruction, ideology, way that white. Jim crow not a real person, name for system of segregation that held sway from 1890s 1960s.
