Author: Democratic Party. National Convention, Charleston and Baltimore, 1860
Publisher:
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Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Proceedings of the Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore
Author: Democratic Party. National Convention, Charleston and Baltimore, 1860
Publisher:
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Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Publisher:
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Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Slavery and the American West
Author: Michael A. Morrison
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution's legacy. Manifest Destiny promised the literal enlargement of freedom through the extension of American institutions all the way to the Pacific. At each step--from John Tyler's attempt to annex Texas in 1844, to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the opening shots of the Civil War--the issue of slavery had to be confronted. Morrison shows that the Revolution was the common prism through which northerners and southerners viewed these events and that the factor that ultimately made consensus impossible was slavery itself. By 1861, no nationally accepted solution to the dilemma of slavery in the territories had emerged, no political party existed as a national entity, and politicians from both North and South had come to believe that those on the other side had subverted the American political tradition.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution's legacy. Manifest Destiny promised the literal enlargement of freedom through the extension of American institutions all the way to the Pacific. At each step--from John Tyler's attempt to annex Texas in 1844, to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the opening shots of the Civil War--the issue of slavery had to be confronted. Morrison shows that the Revolution was the common prism through which northerners and southerners viewed these events and that the factor that ultimately made consensus impossible was slavery itself. By 1861, no nationally accepted solution to the dilemma of slavery in the territories had emerged, no political party existed as a national entity, and politicians from both North and South had come to believe that those on the other side had subverted the American political tradition.
National Register of Microform Masters
Author: Library of Congress. Catalog Publication Division
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Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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States at War, Volume 6
Author: Richard F. Miller
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1512601071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
A valuable reference guide to South Carolina during the Civil War that includes a detailed Confederate States chronology
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1512601071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
A valuable reference guide to South Carolina during the Civil War that includes a detailed Confederate States chronology
Proceedings of the National Railroad Convention, which Assembled in the City of St. Louis, on the Fifteenth of October, 1849
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Category : Pacific railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Category : Pacific railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Abraham Lincoln Ascendent
Author: Garry Boulard
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462015417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASCENDANTTHE STORY OF THE ELECTION OF 1860 Rightly regarded by scholars as perhaps the most important political contest in American history, the election of 1860 is remembered today for making Abraham Lincoln president and by so doing sparking the drive for secession that led to the Civil War. In this compelling and fast-paced account, author Garry Boulard explores the events of a transformative year in America: the vibrancy of the young Republicans, the improbable rise of Lincoln, the multi-layered complexities of the Democratic party, the ongoing Southern diaspora and the alarming specter of a nation on the verge of dissolution. Interwoven into this narrative are the stories of the leaders of 1860: the aging James Buchanan, the man who would someday be regarded as the worst president in U.S. history; William Seward, the savvy New Yorker bested by Lincoln for the Republican nomination; Franklin Pierce, the thoughtful former president still an influence in the Democratic party; Jefferson Davis, soon to be called from his Mississippi plantation to lead the new Confederate nation; and the pugnacious Stephen Douglas, Lincolns long-time and loyal foe, in his finest hour forsaking politics for country. Drawing on the papers of Lincoln, Buchanan, Pierce and Seward, as well as former Presidents John Tyler and Martin Van Buren, Tennessee Democrat Andrew Johnson and the Republican powerhouses Thaddeus Stevens, Schuyler Colfax and Zachariah Chandler, Boulard provides a riveting day-to-day narrative of the dramatic campaign that made Abraham Lincoln president. Undo
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462015417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASCENDANTTHE STORY OF THE ELECTION OF 1860 Rightly regarded by scholars as perhaps the most important political contest in American history, the election of 1860 is remembered today for making Abraham Lincoln president and by so doing sparking the drive for secession that led to the Civil War. In this compelling and fast-paced account, author Garry Boulard explores the events of a transformative year in America: the vibrancy of the young Republicans, the improbable rise of Lincoln, the multi-layered complexities of the Democratic party, the ongoing Southern diaspora and the alarming specter of a nation on the verge of dissolution. Interwoven into this narrative are the stories of the leaders of 1860: the aging James Buchanan, the man who would someday be regarded as the worst president in U.S. history; William Seward, the savvy New Yorker bested by Lincoln for the Republican nomination; Franklin Pierce, the thoughtful former president still an influence in the Democratic party; Jefferson Davis, soon to be called from his Mississippi plantation to lead the new Confederate nation; and the pugnacious Stephen Douglas, Lincolns long-time and loyal foe, in his finest hour forsaking politics for country. Drawing on the papers of Lincoln, Buchanan, Pierce and Seward, as well as former Presidents John Tyler and Martin Van Buren, Tennessee Democrat Andrew Johnson and the Republican powerhouses Thaddeus Stevens, Schuyler Colfax and Zachariah Chandler, Boulard provides a riveting day-to-day narrative of the dramatic campaign that made Abraham Lincoln president. Undo
American Political Parties
Author: Lubomyr Roman Wynar
Publisher: Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Political parties
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher: Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Political parties
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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