Class Schedule
Week 5 (February 17-23)
Tuesday, February 19
Topics of Discussion:
The Dred Scott Decision
The Destruction of
the Second Party System and the Rise of the Republican Party
Readings:
Abraham Lincoln, "House
Divided" Speech (June 16, 1858)
Stephen Douglas on
Dred Scott (July 9 and July 17, 1858)
Press
Reaction to the Dred Scott Decision (1858)
William Geinapp, "Nativism
and the Creation of a Republican Majority in the North before the Civil War"
Ordeal by Fire,
pp. 109-124
Thursday, February 21
Topics of Discussion:
Free Labor Ideology
and Its Critique of the South
The North and South
Contemplate One Another
Readings:
Excerpts from Eric
Foner in Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Excerpts from J. E.
Cairnes, The Slave Power; Its Career, Character and Probable Designs
(1863)
William
Henry Seward,"Irrepressible Conflict" Speech (October 25, 1858)
James
Henry Hammond,"Cotton is King" Speech (March 4, 1858)
Food
for Thought for Week 5
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