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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... 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 invented by modern ...
... 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 invented by modern ...
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... Whigs. So too did many upcountry southerners desirous of better roads and railways and jealous of wealthy Democratic elites in states like Virginia and Tennessee. There was also a strong regional, ethnic, and religious cast to Whiggery ...
... Whigs. So too did many upcountry southerners desirous of better roads and railways and jealous of wealthy Democratic elites in states like Virginia and Tennessee. There was also a strong regional, ethnic, and religious cast to Whiggery ...
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... Whigs and Democrats often differed over slavery-related issues, they shared a commitment to southern values and institutions and often vied with one another to proclaim themselves the most reliable defenders of human bondage — for ...
... Whigs and Democrats often differed over slavery-related issues, they shared a commitment to southern values and institutions and often vied with one another to proclaim themselves the most reliable defenders of human bondage — for ...
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... Whig candidates and office holders in constituencies containing significant numbers of antislavery voters (often Quakers or Yankee evangelicals). Charged by antislavery Whigs and Liberty men with doing the bidding of the South, some ...
... Whig candidates and office holders in constituencies containing significant numbers of antislavery voters (often Quakers or Yankee evangelicals). Charged by antislavery Whigs and Liberty men with doing the bidding of the South, some ...
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... Whig nomination but Van Buren's hopes were dashed at the Democratic convention in Baltimore. Southerners played a major ... Whigs in opposing the administration's Texas annexation treaty when it came to a vote in the House early in 1845 ...
... Whig nomination but Van Buren's hopes were dashed at the Democratic convention in Baltimore. Southerners played a major ... Whigs in opposing the administration's Texas annexation treaty when it came to a vote in the House early in 1845 ...
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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