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Professor Holt's book provides a lucid and provocative interpretation of the coming of the Civil War.
Holt sees the Civil War as representing a breakdown in America's democratic political process, more specifically the Second Party System of Whigs and Democrats. He demonstrates this system's success, beginning in the 1820s and 1830s, in confining sectional disputes safely within the political arena. With the breakdown of vital two-party competition in the 1850s, sectional issues increasingly took on ideological dimension, causing, Americans North and South to see in them dangerous threats to cherished republican institutions. No longer manageable within the arena of politics, sectional differences had to be resolved with in the arena of battle.
The Political Crisis of the 1850s offers a clearly written account of politics (state and federal), sectionalism, race, and slavery from the 1820s through to the Civil War, brilliantly combining the behavioral and ideological approaches to political history.
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Khigh Abner
reviewed The Political Crisis of the 1850s on February 16, 2016
The Political Crisis of the 1850s
This dense look at the politics of the 1850's/lead-up to the Civil War provided precisely the context I was hoping it would.
In the framework of this text, consider:
-People get their news from an echo-chamber environment - propaganda rather than news. Things like a a building being torched in Missouri was loudly touted as proof of the violence that the slave-holding public would do to those against slaver and was referred to as a bloody massacre. There were 0 casualties. There were no major injuries. So the Republicans loudly and publicly drew in voters by exaggerating lies about fatalities.
-Being a political outsider (literally, the "Know Nothings" back then) is seen by a sometimes radical majority as the only reasonable course of action
-Rather than compete nationally, the Republicans chose to only put forth their candidate in one section of the country, choosing to let the other party/ies fight it out/weaken each other, thereby winning election with exclusively with a sectional coalition.
-The fear of "Slave Power" (how the Republicans took power) was not, in fact, based on wholly altruist abolition. While there were indeed people who morally could not stand slavery, "Slave Power" was actually the fear in the North that, should slavery expand (as the aftermath of/reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska compromise proved), northerners would lose all economic and political power to the southern system with its lower labor costs.
There is more - much more, in fact - but the conditions that led to the Civil War fire are being stoked by Republicans again. This text is a very interesting read when considering the lens of Trump voters and Bernie Supporters.
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