PPT Slide
“During the middle decades of the nineteenth century politicians and editorialists in the North and South spelled out contrasting approaches to western expansion. These ideologies… illustrate the contrasting world views that guided the two sections.
“Northerners enunciated a ‘free labor ideology.’ A prosperous, happy America, this credo argued, was one based on the labor of free, independent, hard-working people….
“A sharply contrasting body of beliefs guided southern expansion. The pole star of white southerners was an ideology that linked slavery and territorial growth--and argued that both were absolutely necessary.” --Marc Egnal, 1996