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I found it interesting that while the general theme in the North after the war was to move on, McKinley’s campaign actually brought up the war in order to win. They compared the masses that were marching for federal aid to those rebellious Southerners of the Civil War. Basically, if someone was disturbing the peacefulness of union, then they were akin to a Confederate. I guess this shows that the North really hadn’t forgotten the war and were willing to use it for their convenience. - Angie | I found it interesting that while the general theme in the North after the war was to move on, McKinley’s campaign actually brought up the war in order to win. They compared the masses that were marching for federal aid to those rebellious Southerners of the Civil War. Basically, if someone was disturbing the peacefulness of union, then they were akin to a Confederate. I guess this shows that the North really hadn’t forgotten the war and were willing to use it for their convenience. - Angie | ||
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| + | Kelly begins his article stating that the GOP's slogan for the 1896 election was "Vote as you shot." But after reading the rest of the article, it did not seem to me that this was an appropriate quote to describe the issues at play during this election. If the true concern was to avoid class conflict and sectionalism as the Republican party claims Bryan was going to cause, then why would they say to vote as shot?- Aaskins | ||
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| + | Topic for discussion: the role of blacks in raising historical awareness. How did people such as Grimké ad Du Bois use memorial and patriotic rhetoric to raise the issue of emancipation memory? Is their own patriotic discourse a distortion of memory?- Aaskins | ||
