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Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution QUOTES

Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution QUOTES

1 " queer "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

2 " Grant said that Shiloh convinced him that the rebellion could be crushed only by complete conquest, "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

3 " included the destruction of any property or other resources used to sustain Confederate armies as well as of those armies themselves. "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

4 " Dred Scott decision that legalized slavery in all territories; "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

5 " the first because the Revolution of 1776 had produced no such changes in the distribution of wealth and power among classes.11 "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

6 " Beard’s view, slavery and emancipation were almost incidental to the real causes and consequences of the war. The sectional conflict arose from the contending economic interests of plantation agriculture and industrializing capitalism. "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

7 " That a large percentage of the white “proletariat” in both North and South either supported the Confederacy or opposed emancipation, however, is something of an embarrassment to the Marxian interpretation. "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

8 " sees the revolutionary dimension of the war not simply as a triumph of freedom over slavery, or industrialism over agriculture, or the bourgeoisie over the plantation gentry—but as a combination of all these things. Plantation agriculture in the South was not a form of feudalism, Moore insists; rather, it was a special form of capitalism that spawned a value system and an ideology that glorified hereditary privilege, racial caste, and slavery while it rejected bourgeois "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

9 " Thus the war was a struggle between two conflicting capitalist systems—one reactionary, based on slave labor, and fearful of change; the other progressive, competitive, innovative, and democratic. "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

10 " slave system presented no obstacle to the growth of industrial capitalism as an economic system "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

11 " formidable obstacle to the establishment of industrial capitalist democracy "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

12 " conception of democracy that includes the goals of human equality, even the limited form of equality of opportunity, and human freedom. … Labor-repressive agricultural systems, and plantation slavery in particular, are political obstacles to a particular kind of capitalism, at a specific historical stage: competitive democratic capitalism we must call it for lack of a more precise term. "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

13 " It was a violent breakthrough against an older social structure. "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

14 " But this truth actually supports rather than contravenes the Beard and Moore theses. Most "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

15 " Herrenvolk "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

16 " wastage "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

17 " northern "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

18 " 1860 the South’s share of national wealth was 30 percent; in 1870 it was only 12 percent. "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

19 " tenure "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

20 " wage "

― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution