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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... convention in Virginia seriously considered the possibility of abolition as late as 1830-31. The enormous profits to be garnered from slave-grown staples and the emergence during the Jacksonian era of a strident abolitionist movement in ...
... convention in Virginia seriously considered the possibility of abolition as late as 1830-31. The enormous profits to be garnered from slave-grown staples and the emergence during the Jacksonian era of a strident abolitionist movement in ...
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... convention held in upstate New York on July 19-20 was attended by 200 women and more than 40 men . The meeting passed a series of resolutions ( including a demand for the suffrage ) and a ' Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions ...
... convention held in upstate New York on July 19-20 was attended by 200 women and more than 40 men . The meeting passed a series of resolutions ( including a demand for the suffrage ) and a ' Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions ...
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... convention in Baltimore. Southerners played a major role in invoking the rule (first adopted in 1836) requiring any nominee to secure two-thirds of the convention vote. Unable to secure the necessary level of support, Van Buren was ...
... convention in Baltimore. Southerners played a major role in invoking the rule (first adopted in 1836) requiring any nominee to secure two-thirds of the convention vote. Unable to secure the necessary level of support, Van Buren was ...
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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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