Talk:Origins of the American Civil War (3/4)

Some questions/issues:


 * 1) "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?
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) "Latent sectional divisions suddenly activated derogatory sectional imagery emerge into full-blown sectional ideology that would enter politics." Something wrong there.
 * 4) "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?
 * 5) "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.
 * 6) "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?
 * 7) "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)