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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... election of 1848 The Compromise of 1850 The 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 ...
... election of 1848 The Compromise of 1850 The 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 ...
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... Election Border slave states that did not secede States that seceded after the fall of Fort Sumter Union states States that seceded before the fall MINN . WISC . MICH . Lincoln Republican Douglas Democrat Breckinridge Democrat Bell ...
... Election Border slave states that did not secede States that seceded after the fall of Fort Sumter Union states States that seceded before the fall MINN . WISC . MICH . Lincoln Republican Douglas Democrat Breckinridge Democrat Bell ...
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... elections, and sometimes by organizing unions and promoting strike action, local power was wielded primarily by the wealthier and (in residential terms) more persistent middle class. In the Kingston area, more than 70 percent of key ...
... elections, and sometimes by organizing unions and promoting strike action, local power was wielded primarily by the wealthier and (in residential terms) more persistent middle class. In the Kingston area, more than 70 percent of key ...
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... elections when northern and southern wings of each party came together every four years to nominate a presidential standard bearer and then campaign for his election the following November. No man could receive a national party ...
... elections when northern and southern wings of each party came together every four years to nominate a presidential standard bearer and then campaign for his election the following November. No man could receive a national party ...
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... election , assuage Jacksonian anxieties about Britain's role in the Far West , and promote their own dreams of a great commercial and agrarian empire reaching out across the Pacific to China and Japan . The war itself was costly in ...
... election , assuage Jacksonian anxieties about Britain's role in the Far West , and promote their own dreams of a great commercial and agrarian empire reaching out across the Pacific to China and Japan . The war itself was costly in ...
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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