Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421423898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Examining the congressional debates on antislavery petitions before the Civil War. Passed by the House of Representatives at the start of the 1836 session, the gag rule rejected all petitions against slavery, effectively forbidding Congress from addressing the antislavery issue until it was rescinded in late 1844. In the Senate, a similar rule lasted until 1850. Strongly supported by all southern and some northern Democratic congressmen, the gag rule became a proxy defense of slavery’s morality and economic value in the face of growing pro-abolition sentiment. In John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, Peter Charles Hoffer transports readers to Washington, DC, in the period before the Civil War to contextualize the heated debates surrounding the rule. At first, Hoffer explains, only a few members of Congress objected to the rule. These antislavery representatives argued strongly for the reception and reading of incoming abolitionist petitions. When they encountered an almost uniformly hostile audience, however, John Quincy Adams took a different tack. He saw the effort to gag the petitioners as a violation of their constitutional rights. Adams’s campaign to lift the gag rule, joined each year by more and more northern members of Congress, revealed how the slavery issue promoted a virulent sectionalism and ultimately played a part in southern secession and the Civil War. A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.
John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850
Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421423898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Examining the congressional debates on antislavery petitions before the Civil War. Passed by the House of Representatives at the start of the 1836 session, the gag rule rejected all petitions against slavery, effectively forbidding Congress from addressing the antislavery issue until it was rescinded in late 1844. In the Senate, a similar rule lasted until 1850. Strongly supported by all southern and some northern Democratic congressmen, the gag rule became a proxy defense of slavery’s morality and economic value in the face of growing pro-abolition sentiment. In John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, Peter Charles Hoffer transports readers to Washington, DC, in the period before the Civil War to contextualize the heated debates surrounding the rule. At first, Hoffer explains, only a few members of Congress objected to the rule. These antislavery representatives argued strongly for the reception and reading of incoming abolitionist petitions. When they encountered an almost uniformly hostile audience, however, John Quincy Adams took a different tack. He saw the effort to gag the petitioners as a violation of their constitutional rights. Adams’s campaign to lift the gag rule, joined each year by more and more northern members of Congress, revealed how the slavery issue promoted a virulent sectionalism and ultimately played a part in southern secession and the Civil War. A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421423898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Examining the congressional debates on antislavery petitions before the Civil War. Passed by the House of Representatives at the start of the 1836 session, the gag rule rejected all petitions against slavery, effectively forbidding Congress from addressing the antislavery issue until it was rescinded in late 1844. In the Senate, a similar rule lasted until 1850. Strongly supported by all southern and some northern Democratic congressmen, the gag rule became a proxy defense of slavery’s morality and economic value in the face of growing pro-abolition sentiment. In John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, Peter Charles Hoffer transports readers to Washington, DC, in the period before the Civil War to contextualize the heated debates surrounding the rule. At first, Hoffer explains, only a few members of Congress objected to the rule. These antislavery representatives argued strongly for the reception and reading of incoming abolitionist petitions. When they encountered an almost uniformly hostile audience, however, John Quincy Adams took a different tack. He saw the effort to gag the petitioners as a violation of their constitutional rights. Adams’s campaign to lift the gag rule, joined each year by more and more northern members of Congress, revealed how the slavery issue promoted a virulent sectionalism and ultimately played a part in southern secession and the Civil War. A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.
John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850
Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421423871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421423871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.
John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule
Author: Stephen J. Juergens
Publisher:
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Category : Adams, John Quincy, President United States, 1767-4848
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adams, John Quincy, President United States, 1767-4848
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
John Quincy Adams Versus "Gag-rule"
Author: John Washington Swails
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Writings of John Quincy Adams: 1796-1801
Author: John Quincy Adams
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams.
John Quincy Adams
Author: Debbie Levy
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822508250
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Traces the life and accomplishments of the sixth president of the United States, discussing his policies, anti-slavery view, and life after his presidency.
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822508250
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Traces the life and accomplishments of the sixth president of the United States, discussing his policies, anti-slavery view, and life after his presidency.
Speech of John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, Upon the Right of the People, Men and Women, to Petition; on the Freedom of Speech and Debate in the House of Representatives of the United States; on the Resolutions of Seven State Legislatures, and the Petitions of More Than One Hundred Thousand Petitioners, Relating to the Annexation of Texas to this Union
Author: John Quincy Adams
Publisher:
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Category : Petition, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
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Category : Petition, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Substance of the Speech of John Quincy Adams
Author: John Quincy Adams
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Writings of John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
Author: John Torrey Morse (Jr.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description