For Tuesday, 2/5 read Barney, chapter 4, and know the significance of the following.
Why the Southern elite felt so threatened by Lincoln's secession
How and why whites of many walks of life in South felt invested in slavery
Elements of slave culture and community
Gabriel Prosser
Nat Turner; effects of his revolt
Various defenses of slavery offered by South
Who seceded first and why there was such speed in the Lower South's secession?
Why was there little effort to work out yet another compromise?
Crittendon Compromise
Why Upper South didn't secede immediately?
Ft. Sumter: what happened?