Of virginia. Ok, we have been talking in this class about the american republic, which is a radical experiment for its time. There were very few republics in the world. So, this is a risky venture, because it expects a lot of people. In a monarchy, the duty of the people is essentially to obey. But in a republic, the citizens must participate. They need to vote. They should follow issues. They should be involved in campaigns. And so, a republic asks much more of people. And this is the foundational generation for this american republic. And yet, this is also the peak period for alcoholic consumption in america. So, there is a paradox in which this is a period where the political thinking, the political ideology said we need a republic with a virtue. In other words an electorate , where the people are committed to the wellbeing, the common good of the country and should be willing to set aside their self interest to advance the common good. That is the concept of virtue. And yes, this is the period when people are drinking as never before, and you can see the statistics here that historians have come up with. That in 1790, the per capita Alcohol Consumption in the United States, in the equivalent of gallons of 90 proof alcohol what does 90 proof mean . Everybody knows the answer to that. [laughter] ok. I ask you about Alexander Hamiltons fiscal policy, and there are crickets in here. But i ask you what 90 proof means and half the class knows the answer to that. 45 alcohol. So per capita, that is also a , term. What does per capita mean . Yeah . Per person. Ok, in the u. S. Population, we say per capita, that includes women and children including newborn infants. We are taking the quantity of alcohol consumed in 1790 and dividing by the total population and we are getting 3. 5 gallons per person. I think we can conclude that men were drinking most of this, were drinking more than the infants, and probably were drinking much more than the women were. So, we can assume that mens consumption was probably on the order of 16 gallons per year, of the equivalent of 90 proof alcohol. Now that is higher than it was previously during the colonial era, and yet it will go up. You see by 1830, it gets up to four gallons per capita in the u. S. So this is a period of peak consumption of alcohol in American History. You are wondering, how do you measure up . The last statistic i have for the year 2007, it shows Alcohol Consumption in this country is half of what it used to be, and yet there is plenty of evidence that alcohol can be, for much of the american population, still a problem. Ok. So, we talked about the extent of drinking. We need to talk about what it was that early americans were drinking. So, here are the options. You have to think about what were gentlemen drinking, and what were Common People drinking . Of these options up here, what the gentlemen of the early what did gentlemen of the early republic prefer . Gentlemen like John Marshall . Madeira, that strong wine, imported wine. Pretty expensive. Has a punch, but not nearly as powerful as what Common People preferred. Of the options there what the , Common People prefer . You are thinking beer because youre thinking in your own time, all right . What do you think of those choices would be the most popular for common men in america of 1830 . Whiskey, far and away. Remember, we talked about the whiskey rebellion . How people were upset about the federal government putting a tax on whiskey . Because that really hit home. That was a preferred item of consumption. Now, it is a good question. Why did they drink so much whiskey and very little beer . A lot of it has to do with technology. Go ahead. Did a cute them warm did it keep them warm . It has a warming effect, more so than beer, and that is important because a lot of people working outdoors. Yes . [indiscernible] it does not spoil as easily. There is no refrigeration in the early republic, so you cant go to your refrigerator and get a nice cold beer. If you are going to drink a beer, it has to be freshly made and you got to drink it pretty quickly before it goes bad. People are moving around a lot, so they like something that is portable, something they can put in a flask and stick in their pocket. Whiskey is perfect for that. And will keep for a very long time. So, people drank a lot of whiskey and very little beer. And wine, they mostly drank these very strong wines like madeira, but wine drinking was a phenomena of gentlemen rather than Common People. So, foreigners commented on the very great extensive drinking in the early republic. One english visitor said that americans were certainly not as sober as the french or germans, but perhaps about on the level with the irish. And americans recognized their own heavy drinking. John adams found it mortifying that we americans should exceed all other people in the world in this degrading, beastly imbibe beastly vice of intemperance. Intemperance meant drunkenness in the language of the time. It was not just working men. It was also gentlemen. For example in 1790, the governor of new york gave a public dinner attended by fellow gentlemen. There were 120 gentlemen attending, and they consumed 135 bottles of madeira, 36 bottles of port, 60 bottles of beer, and these would be bottles the same size as a wine bottle. So, the running total for those of you keeping score 135 bottles of madeira, 36 of port, 60 of beer, 15 bottles of rum, and this was at one public dinner. Partly the drinking is so heavy at these political banquets because they are offering toasts to almost everything. There would be a toast to the United States, a toast to the constitution, a toast to the heroes of the revolution, a toast to the president , a toast to the Vice President , a toast to the american fair, by which they meant the women not attending the banquet. There would also be a toast offered for every single state in the union. [laughter] that is quite a challenge when youre just at 13 states, but they keep adding states to the union. Indeed, i think this is one of incentives for adding states to the union. Lets let in kentucky. That would be another toast of the next banquet. And people are drinking everywhere and on all occasions. They drink at home. They drank at work. They drink at taverns. They drank for pleasure. They drank to numb pain. They drank from the crack of dawn to the crack of dawn. It was standard for many men to begin the day with what was called an eyeopener, which was a shot of whiskey, and then to continue through the rest of the day. A traveler declared americans can do nothing without a drink. If you make acquaintance, you drink. You close a bargain, you drink. They quarrel in their drink and they make it up with a drink. They drink because it is hot. They drink because it is cold. If successful in elections, they drink and rejoice. If not, they drink and swear. So, now we have got a pattern. We have something we need to explain. We have to address the why question. Why is it that americans are drinking so much in this period of American History . What explanations would you want to put on the table for this . Yes . Maybe the Water Quality was not so good . Water quality, poor Water Quality. That is certainly true. There was almost nothing in the way of public purified water, which we take for granted today. How did you get your water in the early republic . You went to the well and got it. Even in the cities. In the cities, you can imagine how filthy the well water would get. If you are drawing water out of a river or a stream, because they also double as sewers. Drinking the water was not a popular option. What else would you put for an explanation . [indiscernible] to say the least, it is very cheap. The cheapest in all the world. Why would alcohol be so cheap in the United States . Yes . Production methods. They are importing . Do you think that they are mostly importing their alcohol or consuming domestically produced alcohol . Mostly. Madeira is imported, but what about whiskey . Domestic. Ok, what is whiskey made from . Grain. What do americans grow a ton of . Grain. The number one grain producing country in the world. It is an agricultural country. They have a lot of surplus grain. And often the Grain Growers are at a distance from market. Say, they are in western pennsylvania. They have to get their produce over the mountains to market in philadelphia. You want something that is more portable and higher value per volume. So, distilling your corn crop into whiskey makes it much more marketable in the east. So, there is more whiskey being produced in the United States than in any other country in the world, and when you have got a big supply, it means the price is going to be low. Another factor is the governments did not tax whiskey. You remember what happened when the government tried to tax whiskey. It did not go well. If any of you want to rush out and buy a bottle of whiskey right after this lecture, youre going to find it is pretty expensive. And youre going to find that most of the cost of that whiskey comes in the form of federal and state taxes. So, in the 20th century, governments got in the habit of levying taxes on whiskey and got away with it. But that was not the case in the early 19th century. So, you had a very common product with virtually no taxation on it. That meant it was cheap. It was cheaper to get drunk in america than any other country in the world. And Many Americans thought that was their primary liberty. So, we have bad water. What about drinking other things . What about drinking soda or drinking juices . Were those options . Those did not exist. No carbonation. And fruit juice again, you have the refrigeration problem. People might drink juice right away during harvest season, but there is no way to store it except to turn it into alcohol. So, you would turn apple juice into a hard cider or pear juice into a pear brandy. But there is very little to drink in america that is not alcoholic, other than water, and the water was bad. I asked one new yorker what he thought about the local water. He said, it is very good for navigation. In other words you can sail on , it, but you dont want to drink it. So we have the bad water. We have the fact that whiskey is quite cheap. Any other explanations you can think of why people drink so much at this time . Yes . Being drunk makes you feel better about what is happening in your life. Certainly it does, in the short term. So, there are stresses in this society. It is a very Competitive Society in terms of people seeking to make money, and not everyone is going to succeed. There will be a fair share of failures. Just the stress of this more Competitive Society is going to leave a lot of people to drink is going to lead a lot of people to drink to console themselves or to drink to celebrate that they are successful. Any other things you can think of . Yes . The cost ofk to production and the cost of transportation between out west farms and cities improved. Ok, transportation costs are going down as transportation is being improved, particularly at this time with the steamboat but also canals, such as the theory canal which is completed in 1825. That is helping to lower the cost of whiskey in the east when that whiskey is being brought from the west. Let me also suggest to you that the high geographic mobility of americans contributes to this. That americans are moving around in pursuit of economic opportunity, not always finding it. And when they do move around, they are trying to form new social bonds with people, and they often found it easier to share a drink with some new acquaintance, to try to get to know them. And so almost every social occasion featured drinking. Every cornhusking, barnraising, funeral, marriage, birth called for alcohol. One farmer remembered a country funeral in maine. The minister could not stand to preach without holding on by the side of the door. The bearers could not walk straight, nor the mourners keep the line of procession. Yet it was not noticed in those times. The same man recalled a local wedding. We all took so freely of the good cheer that the minister forgot his verses, so after trying several kinds of poetry and ditties, he gave up and said to the couple, you may consider yourselves married and i will come out some other day and finish the ceremony. [laughter] these were stories told during the 1830s looking back on this earlier time of very heavy drinking. Another factor is what americans ate. What do you suppose the diet was very heavy of at this time . A lot of health food . No . What do you suppose people ate massive quantities off . Meat. We come to the refrigeration issue. Could you go to the refrigerator and pull out a steak . No. Were there any Grocery Stores to go to . No. How did you preserve meat at that time . It orlts it you salt you smoke it. In either case, if you eat a lot of that, you are going to be very thirsty. Then you will face the choice. Water or whiskey. Most americans will choose the whiskey. There was the belief that after you have had a heavy meal, heavy and salted or smoked meats, you need alcohol to settle your stomach. Americans were notorious for eating massive quantities of food, and eating it as quickly as possible. European visitors were just astonished. They would bring stopwatches to time american meals. And they would marvel to see these huge quantities of hams and beef steak and bacon being bolted down in five minutes, and of course they have to settle their stomachs, and it is with whiskey. One visitor noted as soon as food is set on the table, they fall upon it like wolves on an unguarded herd. Yes . Dont they get a little alcohol poisoning . We are going to come down to those. Because none of this is going to be without problems. Were going to talk about social consequences. In terms of causes, i also want to talk about the nature of work. There was the belief that alcohol helped people work outdoors. It helped them deal with extremes of temperature, either very hot or very cold. Helped them cope with it raining or snowing. Did most americans work outdoors or indoors at that time . Outdoors, because what sorts of jobs did they have . They are farmers, overwhelmingly. That is the number one occupation in america. 80 . And then other common occupations are also outdoors. Being a sailor, being a logger, being a fisherman, being a dockworker. Relatively few americans work indoors at desk jobs. If you believe this helps you cope with the weather outside, you will be drinking on the job. And even people who worked in shops lets say a blacksmith or a shoemaker they also drank during the job. The belief was it helps people the believe was that it helped people do their daily work. So, it was a common practice. It was almost universal that employers would provide alcohol. If you were a farmer and you hired farm laborers, those laborers expected that in addition to the pay you were giving them you were going to feed them a meal and provide them with alcohol, so they could keep working. You went into a shoemaker from if you went into a shoemaker shop, same story. The master would provide alcohol. It would be a bonds the between the master or the journeyman and the apprentice. Question . Did they also give it to slaves . No, slaves are the exception. With the exception during harvest season. A special bonus to get slaves to work harder during the cotton harvest or tobacco harvest, providing them alcohol at that season. Otherwise, masters or trying to deny alcohol to their slaves. But slaves could see the free people around them drinking heavily. It becomes a goal to steal alcohol and share it with your friends in the slave quarters as an act of defiance, as a way to say, we are just as good as free people and we should be able to drink, too. In the military, the army and the navy had to provide alcohol. George Washingtons Army often ran out of food for long stretches of time. His army never ran out of alcohol. And washington understood, as did all other commanders, if you wanted to keep men in the ranks the number one thing you could do, even better than paying them, was to provide alcohol every day. Same thing in the navy. We will see that this will start to change in the 1830s and it will produce a great deal of strain in the relationships between employers and employees when employers try to cut off providing alcohol. Elections promoted alcoholic consumption. We might like to think people would be sober when they were making their very important political decisions, but in the early republic, most voters were not sober. And indeed, the friends of different candidates would be at the polling places and theywould have flasks of whiskey with them, and they would be up slapping people on the back, offering them free whiskey, and encouraging them to cast their vote for the candidate providing them with the alcohol. It was for example, a traveler reported an election in kentucky lasts three days, and during that period, and apple toddy flowed through our cities and villages like the euphrates through ancient babylon. A number of runners, each with a whiskey bottle poking its long neck from his pocket, were busily employed bribing voters. Today there are laws that say if you are promoting a candidate, you have to be a certain distance from the polling place, and you not allowed to be pressing alcohol a potential on potential voters, but there were no such laws in the early republic. George washington was one of the most successful politicians of his time in virginia, because he understood a practice known as treating, which is that a candidate should host a barbecue in the runup to the election. Invite all of the voters of the county to come to his barbecue and provide them with free food, heaping slabs of smoked and salted meat, and all the alcohol they could drink. The belief of the time was, a candidate who is so generous is proving that he is accessible to Common People. He is not some sort of stuck up, distant aristocrat. Washington, who was a very dignified man, would not show up at his own barbecue. He would have friends that would host this and washington would pay the bill. And he was not the only one. Almost everyone running for office, particularly in the south, did this. In one of his more successful campaigns, washington served 144 gallons of alcohol to 307 voters. Thats about two votes per gallon, which was not considered not a bad return. But what about the politician who developed principles and decides he is not going to serve alcohol on a campaign . Well there was a rare example of , this and his name was James Madison. As a young politician in virginia, he refused to treat the virginia voters. He deemed the practice inconsistent with the highest morals and republican principles. How do you suppose James Madison did in his campaign . He went down to defeat. The next time he ran for office, he resumed treating the voters and he won. Ok, so we explored the reasons behind this very heavy drinking in america of this time. We have to consider, what do you suppose the social consequences were of this level of Alcohol Consumption, particularly by men . What are some of the problems you would find . [indiscernible] much more domestic violence, particularly of men hating wives, hitting children. That is a problem. Yes . More violence in general. More violence in general. Out at the taverns, surrounded by fellow drunks, you start arguing about politics. You start arguing about the weather. You start arguing about the color of peoples eyes. A brawl breaks out. So there is that. Yes . [indiscernible] bad decisions made in terms of . Political . Political. We can sometimes wonder about the decisions made by voters given the state they are and when they go to the polling place. That is why we now have laws saying it is not a good idea to get people drunk just before they go to vote. Other consequences you might think of . Yes . Health problems . Health problems. This is a level of Alcohol Consumption that could invite health problems. We are not talking about people taking an occasional drink at a meal. We are talking about people drinking all day long, hard stuff. Not all americans are doing that, but among american men, a majority were doing that at this time, and that is going to take a toll on people after a while. For some people, the toll will start pretty quickly. Because some people do not have the capacity for this. But they feel pressured to do it because that is what everybody around them is doing. Any other problems you can think of . Yes . [indiscernible] in the workplace. This is going to become much more of a problem when you add machines to the workplace. It is one thing if you are making a shoe by hand, but what if you are making issue with the help of machinery and you have had too much to drink . You can start to lose fingers and hands and arms pretty quickly. And employers did not like that because it messes up the machines. And they spent good money for those machines. What were you going to say . Production will go down. If you are more drunk, you are the job of the employee is to keep the pace of the machine. That is setting a brisker pace than people were used to working. Now if you are drinking, and you cant keep up with the machine, the shoes will come out all screwy because you, as the worker, did not do your part in the work process. This is going to be particularly of concern to people organizing new workplaces, particularly in factories. Also the economic slowdown because the people who are drunk do not work so hard. Getn general, they want to more work out of people. Because they are engaged in a competitive marketplace. If your competitor manages to reduce the drinking by his workers and you do not, who is it that is going to be more successful in selling the product or producing more products . It is going to be your competitor and not you and you may go out of business. Yes . [indiscernible] because the military and the navy are drinking so much, they might lose battles they might be. The good thing for the American Military is the other militaries were also drinking. So, the military is going to be the last element of American Society to change. And they are going to be continuing to provide alcohol to the soldiers through the civil war. Other questions or comments . Yes . Is there a drinking age . No drinking age at that time. You could come in as a sixyearold and if you had the money, they would sell you a drink. Ok. Well this is good. , you have covered the essential elements. If you think about it, it is a heavy level of drinking. It is going up. It is leading some americans to question it because of these different social problems, and women in particular they are not drinking as much as the men, but they are bearing many of the negative consequences. One negative consequence poverty. If your husband is drinking up his wages, then there is not going to be enough food or decent clothing for the children and for the wife at home. So, women are becoming very concerned that a heavy level of Alcohol Consumption is leading to high levels of Domestic Abuse and it is impoverishing many families. And we talked about this concept of republican motherhood where women feel they have an obligation to teach virtue to their children. It is pretty hard to teach virtue in a household where the primary male example is drunk a lot of the time. And so women would say our , responsibilities as republican mothers means that we ought to be heard in the political sphere on issues that affect our households. And the number one negative issue affecting our households is a high level of Alcohol Consumption. Really, kind of two strands of culture which are coming together. We could say three strands. One is this idea of republican motherhood. Another strand is evangelical religion. The United States is primarily a protestant country at that time, and the most dominant form of the protestant faith was evangelical. And Evangelical Churches during this period of time, from 1800 until 1850 are increasingly coming to believe that drinking any alcohol is a sin that leads people to other sins. And so, if you are to perfect your moral behavior, then the convert to your faith must stop drinking. Earlier in the colonial period, churches had tried to reduce drinking and little bit, but they had not really pushed on it. Now you get churches pushing very hard, especially in the time after 1830. Republican motherhood is one strand of influence. We have Evangelical Churches as another strand. And the third is industrial capitalism. And we talked about how employers were in a more competitive marketplace. They wanted more productivity from their workers. They did not want to be spending their own money buying drinks for their workers when that is just complicating and reducing productivity. Yes . [indiscernible] well, it has deepened it. Women are feeling the public sphere, particularly all of this drinking at militia musters or at elections is causing a problem for them in their households. They say, if were going to protect our sphere, this domestic sphere, we need to have a lot less drinking in the public sphere. If they succeed in this Temperance Movement and the public sphere becomes one that is much more temperate, then the argument is the domestic sphere and the public sphere will be in more harmony than they are when you have this high level of drinking, both public and private. Yes . [indiscernible] it might. But workers like to have their jobs. And this is a time in which the Union Movement was very weak. So not all employers can get , away with this, but most employers can get away with it, because even where people are unionized, there are other issues that are more important to them, such as having better pay. So sometimes employers are , improving pay a little bit at the same time they are taking away the provision of this alcohol in the workplace. I say sometimes. Often the employer is just taking away the alcohol provision and not improving the pay, but workers have to take it because they are not unionized. This is a time in the country when the government, state and national, do not recognize unions. That is a development of the 20th century. Ok, so the workplace is changing. Again, i want to remind you, farmers. Icans stay and a lot of farmers are still providing alcohol. It is not so much the workplace is changing for farmers. It is that a lot of farmers are becoming evangelical christians and they want to reduce Alcohol Consumption because it is in their conviction the moral thing to do. Onlyemployers are not eliminating the alcohol they provide in the workplace. They are also telling the workers, dont you bring your own flask in here. No more drinking on the job. Some employers go even further when they can get away with it. And they say, if you really want to keep your job here, i would like you to go to the local Evangelical Church and i would like you to take a pledge of temperance. And preferably one of abstinence. Now, this means of alcohol. A lot of workers would just say no way, but workers who were concerned about keeping their job might say, ok, i will see you in church on sunday. So, this is developing a tension. Not all workers want to go along with what their employers want them to do in terms of changing their behavior not simply in the workplace, but also in their leisure time. Some workers go along with it. Some dont. It also becomes a class divide. Which social class do you think is going to be pushing hardest for temperance . [indiscernible] yeah, the people who will be owning these workshops or owning farms. What class would we call this . Middle class and wealthier people would be pushing for temperance. And the people most resistant to it would be the ones who need alcohol to cope with their art their harderh lives, and that would be more working people. Again i am just talking about a general pattern. You will find plenty of working men who join temperance groups because they wanted to have better lives. I do not want you to go away from this thinking that workers just want to get drunk. There were many workers who cared about temperance. But the people who care the most about temperance are middleclass people. Any questions so far . There is also i also talked about a gender divide. Women cared deeply about temperance. Most of the resistance will be male. It is a class divide, stronger among middleclass people than workingclass people. There is also an ethnic divide. People who were already born in the United States were more prone to embrace the Temperance Movement then were immigrants. And immigrants often felt that this was a form of cultural warfare. There was also the religious divide. Many immigrants to america were catholics and they did not see the same problems with alcohol that protestants were identifying. And they felt a tense to reduce ofir consumption was a way attacking their ethnicity and their faith. If you wanted to find a setting where you would find the greatest commitment to preserving the traditional custom of drinking, it would be a neighborhood with a large number of immigrants, relatively poor, often catholic. And they would say, it is none of your business what we do on our own time. Leave us alone. There becomes a political divide. By the 1830s and 1840s, we have a new pair of political parties. The old federalists, gone. The old jeffersonian republicans have evolved. What are the names of the two parties refined during the 1830s and 1840s. Go ahead . The democrats and the whigs. The whigs drew very heavily on those social groups that favor temperance. Forwhig party made a push temperance. They were strong among business owners, strong among evangelical christians, although women could not vote, if they could vote, they would have voted overwhelmingly in the northeast for the whigs. The Democratic Party draws support from those who are the most skeptical of temperance. Immigrants, workingclass americans rural americans. , there is something of a Cultural Divide emerging in the country that has political consequences. The Temperance Movement does start to have an impact during the 1830s and 1840s. And initially, it is in the form of what we call moral suasion. That is like persuasion. For example, if you are watching television, you will see ads where there are warnings against the consequences of drunk driving. There are certainly laws against drunk driving, but there is also a Publicity Campaign that is mounted by social groups and by the government to try to persuade people to change their behavior. Similar efforts to try to persuade people today to stop smoking cigarettes. That is what we call moral suasion. An attempt to persuade people to make the choice themselves to change their behavior. And temperance initially focused on moral suasion. And achieved some gains. It essentially became disrespectable to be a middle class person and be a heavy drinker. Middleclass people start to police themselves. They dont like to associate with people who are heavy drinkers. So, it starts to dissipate in the middle class, particularly in the northeast and midwest. It persists in the workingclass where the working class are reinforcing more traditional behavior. Temperance groups are finding that there is kind of a cap to how far they can go in achieving the reduction of drinking if they just rely on moral suasion. So, the alternative is to get localities and states to pass laws that would forbid the sale, the consumption, the production of alcohol. You are thinking about the famous prohibition law that Congress Passed in the 1920s. Were talking about an earlier period when it is not a federal issue. It is a state issue. There are a number of states now that take up this question of should they ban the production, the sale, and the consumption of alcohol . The first state to do this is the state of maine in 1851. And so, this first attempt at prohibition and the country was done at the state level and the first state to try it was maine. Maine is a northeastern state, had a lot of evangelicals, had a lot of middleclass entrepreneurs, was very strong for the whig party. So it is an ideal place to try this for the first time. But during the next four years, another 12 states will adopt their own versions of the maine law. All of the states were in the north. All of the New England States adopted such laws. New york adopted it and about half of the states in the midwest. Did any Southern States adopt it into law . No. So, we are seeing that the country is dividing over the issue of temperance. And particularly over the attempt to use political prohibition to force people to change their behavior. I have a question. Go ahead. Why does the southern part of the United States not not have this is a very good question. Can anybody think of reasons the south might be particularly reluctant to jump on board with this northern phenomenon . Yes . With the examples of the factories, there are not as many in the south. There are not as many factories. We talked about industrial capitalism being one of the three sources. That source is particularly weak in the south. People in the south work outside. It is a very rural part of the country. Yes . They did not have the town hall meetings. It is harder to organize social groups in the south because the population is so dispersed. Theyre not giving alcohol to be slaves. Theyre not giving alcohol to the slaves, so . It is all for themselves. They think of it as an important right as a free person to drink all you want. Do they want outsiders telling them not to . No. There is also a developing suspicion of the north and any social movement that develops there. It is perceived to be some sort of fad and northerners should not be telling southerners what to do. Part of it is just trying to defend traditions in the south because they do not want to do anything that is new and comes from the north. And traditions of drinking suit their way of living just fine. That is not to say there were not southerners who favored temperance. There were. But there were not enough of them to pass any laws. In general, southerners do not like an activist government. They do not like government passing laws making people change behavior. They just dont like it. They dont like it when their own states do it. They especially do not like it if any outside government tries to do it. Why do you suppose southerners are so sensitive about an activist government . What kind of activity by a government might be especially concerning to them . Yes . The emancipation of the slaves . The slaves. Temperamentally, white southerners do not want governments to get it into their head that they can do things peoples with property. Messing with tavern keepers or distillers property is not as bad as messing with slavery, because slavery, so much was invested in that. But it is seen as a slippery slope. If the government thinks it has the right to shut down distilleries or shut down taverns, what is to stop them from shutting down slavery . So, just to be on the safe side, southerners, meaning white southerners, like to say the government that governs best is the government that governs least. So, they did not like what they were seeing in the north because northerners were using state governments to change peoples behavior. Question . Maderent they also still about the tariffs . They are. And who is pushing the protective tariffs . The whigs. They just do not trust the messengers, who are the whigs. Thank you very much. See you next time. You can watch lectures in history every weekend on American History tv. We take you inside College Classrooms to learn about topics ranging from the American Revolution to 9 11. Thats saturday at 8 00 p. M. And midnight eastern on cspan3. 100 years ago, the 19th amendment was ratified granting women the right to vote. Usday at 8 00 eastern, join for a conversation with colleen shogan. She will take your calls, Facebook Messages and tweets. Easternday at 8 00 a. M. On washington journal and American History tv on cspan3. On the eve of the Democratic National convention, we will show several acceptance speeches by president ial nominees from to the footage appears 1960. Courtesy of nbc news archives. Heres a preview. [applause] we will do that to you because they are wrong and we are right. I will prove it to you in just a few minutes. This convention met to express the will and reaffirm the beliefs of the Democratic Party. There have been differences of opinion, and thats the democratic way. Those differences have been settled by a majority vote, as they should be. Now it is time for us to get together and beat the common enemy. [applause] we will be working together for victory in a great cause. Victory has become a habit of our party. It has been elected four times in succession, and im convinced it will be elected a fifth time next november. [applause] the people know the Democratic Party is the peoples party, and the Republican Party is the party of a special interest, and always has been, always will be. [applause] the record of the Democratic Party is written in their accomplishments of the last 16 years. I dont need to repeat them. Placedve been very ably before this convention by the keynote speaker, the candidate for Vice President , and by the permanent chairman. Watch more of the acceptance speeches this sunday at 8 00 p. M. Pacific 5 00 here on American History tv. Available inency, paperback, hardcover and ebook. President s of every expired by conversations with noted historians about the leadership skills that make for a successful presidency. In this president ial election year, as americans decide who should lead our country, this offers to learn more about all of our president s in the books featured historians, visit cspan. Org the president. Available wherever books are sold. 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