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)