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Lecture 4 - A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement
FromHIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
Lecture 4 - A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement
FromHIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
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Aug 18, 2017
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Having finished with slavery and the pro-slavery argument, Professor Blight heads North today. The majority of the lecture deals with the rise of the Market Revolution in the North, in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s. Blight first describes the causes of the Market Revolution--the rise of capital, a transportation revolution--and then moves to its effects on the culture and consciousness of antebellum northerners. Among these effects were a riotous optimism mixed with a deep-rooted fear of change, an embrace of the notions of progress and Manifest Destiny, and the intensification of the divides between North and South.TranscriptLecture Page
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Aug 18, 2017
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Titles in the series (27)
Lecture 6 - Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850: In this lecture, Professor Blight discusses some of the conflicts, controversies, and compromises that led up to the Civil War. After analyzing Frederick Douglass's 1852 Fourth of July speech and the inherent conflict between American slavery and American freedom, the lecture moves into a lengthy discussion of the war with Mexico in the 1840s. Professor Blight explains why northerners and southerners made "such a fuss" over the issue of slavery's expansion into the western territories. The lecture ends with the crisis over California's admission to statehood and the Compromise of 1850. Transcript Lecture Page by HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877