APUSH Task II HW
1. The election of 1852 officially marked the beginning of the end for Whig Party. This is because when the party nominated General Winfield Scott, different members of the Whigs supported different things about Scott. The abolitionists supported Scott but despised his support for the Fugitive Slave Law. The southern Whigs, in contrast, supported Scott’s approval of the Fugitive Slave Law, yet they also had a bone to pick with Scott and that what whether or not he would truly uphold the Compromise of 1850. The split of the Whig Party shows an instance where a national party with supporters in both the north and the south is split because of the issue over slavery.
2. The origins of nativism were in the Know-Nothing Party. The Know-Nothings relate to the slavery issue because they were originally part of the Republican Party that formed to counter the Kansas-Nebraska Act. They also ended up becoming pro-slavery, which led to their decline because their party was based in the north.
3. There were many economic developments that widened the chasm between the North and the South. California’s rapid economic growth due to the Gold Rush and admission as a free state made southerners angry because they opposed the thought of a free, and prosperous, state. The north also made a quantum leap in economic growth with the development of railroads. This sped up the economy because goods and people could be transported faster, and therefore transactions could happen faster. The speedy transportation provided by the railroads also played a factor in the North’s victory over the south in the Civil War. The south also had a lower literacy rate, and therefore could perform less skilled jobs than the north could. Yet, the South also shared some economic prosperity as their staple cash crop, cotton, had its prices double between the mid-18402s and mid-1850s.
4. The free labor ideology denounced slavery for its lack of social mobility and practice of bondage. It relates to 1850s politics because its ideas were part of the Republican platform used to fight slavery. It also was another instance in which abolitionists addressed the slavery issue on being immoral and unjust. Herrenvolk democracy called for a democracy that was only ruled by the majority ethnic group in that society. This means that if you were not part of the biggest or most dominant ethnic group, then you were not entitled with the rights of democracy. This relates to politics in the 1850s because the country was essentially a Herrenvolk democracy. The whites ruled the government seats and only white males could vote. This lack of rights to other ethnic groups and genders sparked many reform movements, like women’s reform and abolitionist’s reform.
5. I disagree because the “blundering generation” of politicians, for the most part, were not being radical. The two sides just could not compromise because of two polar opposite beliefs and lifestyles. The North was able to prosper economically with little slaves and therefore saw slavery as immoral and unfair. On the other hand, the South saw slavery an absolutely necessary because they needed to slaves to fund cotton production, which funds economic prosperity. The inability of both sides to see each other’s viewpoint is not due to the blundering generation, as it is to the lifestyle differences that led the two regions to fail to stand in one another’s shoes.
2. The origins of nativism were in the Know-Nothing Party. The Know-Nothings relate to the slavery issue because they were originally part of the Republican Party that formed to counter the Kansas-Nebraska Act. They also ended up becoming pro-slavery, which led to their decline because their party was based in the north.
3. There were many economic developments that widened the chasm between the North and the South. California’s rapid economic growth due to the Gold Rush and admission as a free state made southerners angry because they opposed the thought of a free, and prosperous, state. The north also made a quantum leap in economic growth with the development of railroads. This sped up the economy because goods and people could be transported faster, and therefore transactions could happen faster. The speedy transportation provided by the railroads also played a factor in the North’s victory over the south in the Civil War. The south also had a lower literacy rate, and therefore could perform less skilled jobs than the north could. Yet, the South also shared some economic prosperity as their staple cash crop, cotton, had its prices double between the mid-18402s and mid-1850s.
4. The free labor ideology denounced slavery for its lack of social mobility and practice of bondage. It relates to 1850s politics because its ideas were part of the Republican platform used to fight slavery. It also was another instance in which abolitionists addressed the slavery issue on being immoral and unjust. Herrenvolk democracy called for a democracy that was only ruled by the majority ethnic group in that society. This means that if you were not part of the biggest or most dominant ethnic group, then you were not entitled with the rights of democracy. This relates to politics in the 1850s because the country was essentially a Herrenvolk democracy. The whites ruled the government seats and only white males could vote. This lack of rights to other ethnic groups and genders sparked many reform movements, like women’s reform and abolitionist’s reform.
5. I disagree because the “blundering generation” of politicians, for the most part, were not being radical. The two sides just could not compromise because of two polar opposite beliefs and lifestyles. The North was able to prosper economically with little slaves and therefore saw slavery as immoral and unfair. On the other hand, the South saw slavery an absolutely necessary because they needed to slaves to fund cotton production, which funds economic prosperity. The inability of both sides to see each other’s viewpoint is not due to the blundering generation, as it is to the lifestyle differences that led the two regions to fail to stand in one another’s shoes.
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