Civil War America: Making a Nation, 1848-1877Routledge, 2014 M06 6 - 402 pages The American Civil War was without doubt the defining event in the history of the United States. This up-to-date analyisis of a critical period goes beyond the origins, course and consequences of the Civil War to bring in other important themes such as racial conflict, gender relations, religion, the popular memory and state formation. |
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... Democrats ascendant , 1850-52 3. Political Crises of the 1850s The Kansas - Nebraska Act Politics in flux The Republican threat The eclipse of national Democracy and the election of Lincoln 4. The Disunited States : Secession and Civil ...
... Democrats ascendant , 1850-52 3. Political Crises of the 1850s The Kansas - Nebraska Act Politics in flux The Republican threat The eclipse of national Democracy and the election of Lincoln 4. The Disunited States : Secession and Civil ...
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... Democrats and the Whigs.51 Slaveholders played a leading role in both organizations, each of which attracted significant support from large numbers of southerners and northerners. Crucially, then, the 'second party system' (a term ...
... Democrats and the Whigs.51 Slaveholders played a leading role in both organizations, each of which attracted significant support from large numbers of southerners and northerners. Crucially, then, the 'second party system' (a term ...
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... Democratic party was opposed to capitalism. Like all large political organizations it was a broad coalition. Conservative Democrats in almost every state supported Whiggish economic legislation such as government aid for internal ...
... Democratic party was opposed to capitalism. Like all large political organizations it was a broad coalition. Conservative Democrats in almost every state supported Whiggish economic legislation such as government aid for internal ...
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... Democrats meant primarily white males of all social classes. As prosperity began to return to the United States in the early 1840s, the party's emphasis began to shift from economic issues to those concerning spatial expansion and race ...
... Democrats meant primarily white males of all social classes. As prosperity began to return to the United States in the early 1840s, the party's emphasis began to shift from economic issues to those concerning spatial expansion and race ...
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... Democrats in turn were forced into establishing their independence from the powerful southern wing of their party. In 1840, for the first time ever, more northern Democrats voted against than for the Gag Rule, first adopted by the House ...
... Democrats in turn were forced into establishing their independence from the powerful southern wing of their party. In 1840, for the first time ever, more northern Democrats voted against than for the Gag Rule, first adopted by the House ...
Contents
Political Crises of the 1850s | |
Secession and Civil | |
The Quest for Southern Independence | |
The Union in Wartime | |
The Struggle Over Reconstruction 186576 | |
The Far West in the MidNineteenth Century | |
Reform Reaction and Reunion at the Dawn of the Gilded | |
The United States in the Era of Civil | |
Index | |
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