Talk:Origins of the American Civil War (2/4)

Some questions/issues:


 * 1) "to claim as slaves often residing there for years". Who or what was claimed?  Who resided?
 * 2) "James Buchanan, for example, left office". What is this an example of?  The article reads as if this is an example of Seward's argument, and thus a rebuttal of Buchanan's argument.  Can that be right?
 * 3) "the second American party system conformed to this pattern" What was the second American party system? Do we have an article on it?
 * 4) What is the "Old Northwest"? Is is a recognised term?
 * 5) "therefore, pressure began to build for efforts to extend settlement westward once again." Why?  Was there pressure for extending settlement because the line of settlement had been extended?
 * 6) "Of greater importance than the opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act in Congress was the reaction against it in the Northern states". I'm not sure what this means.  Is it contrasting the Northern representatives in Congress with the voters back home?
 * 7) The Kansas-Nebraska Act produced "immediate... changes", but "for the first month... radicals were worried by the lack of popular response"?
 * 8) "Once the Northern reaction against the Kansas-Nebraska Act took place, the radicals swung into action to attempt another political reorganization." The rest of this paragraph gives the impression that these events were simultaneous.
 * 9) "Its editor, Gamaliel Bailey". Editor of what?
 * 10) "The radicals also took a leading role in the creation of the Republican Party in many northern states". Who else took a role?  What happened in the other northern states?
 * 11) Republicans also insisted that there was a high correlation between... the values of the "Protestant ethic" - and Republican votes." To whom did they insist this? Why?

Markalexander100 08:28, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)