Talk:Origins of the American Civil War (3/4)
Some questions/issues:
- "Behind this shift was the growth of the cotton industry.... Coloring this and heightening its intensity, it was imbued with a pattern of ideological response". Coloring what? The shift or the growth? What was imbued?
- Foreshadowing modern totalitarian thought, especially Nazism". Totalitarian is not the same as racist. ;) The article argues elsewhere that the southerners were more tolerant of diversity that the northerners.
- "Latent sectional divisions suddenly activated derogatory sectional imagery emerge into full-blown sectional ideology that would enter politics." Something wrong there.
- "the corresponding rise of a mass society". What is a mass society? As opposed to what? Is is different from the mass politics mentioned in the next sentence?
- "the people of each territory would be denied a measure of states' rights". Which territories? Kansas and Nebraska? Different parts of Kansas? The constitution seems only to deal with Kansas.
- "With growing discontent with the unwillingness of many Democratic leaders to take a stand against slavery, and growing consciousness of their increasingly pro-Southern stance". Whose discontent and consciousness- Seward's? The public's?
- "The groundswell of popular clamor fed by the issue of free soil, however, was powerful enough to thwart these aims (and ensure the nomination of a conservative Republican candidate less likely to inspire the secession of Southern states in 1860)." I don't understand this. I thought that Lincoln was the candidate in 1860, and he did inspire the secession?
Markalexander100 08:48, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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