Author: Robert Charles WinthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A Memoir of Robert C. Winthrop
Author: Robert Charles WinthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A Memoir of Robert C. Winthrop
Author: Robert C. WinthropMemorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
Author: New England Historic Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Dictionary Catalogue ...
Author: Illinois State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Catalogue of the ... Library of the Late ... G.L. Balcom ...
Author: George L. BalcomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Slavery and the American West
Author: Michael A. MorrisonPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution's legacy. Manifest Destiny promised the literal enlargement of freedom through the extension of American institutions all the way to the Pacific. At each step--from John Tyler's attempt to annex Texas in 1844, to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the opening shots of the Civil War--the issue of slavery had to be confronted. Morrison shows that the Revolution was the common prism through which northerners and southerners viewed these events and that the factor that ultimately made consensus impossible was slavery itself. By 1861, no nationally accepted solution to the dilemma of slavery in the territories had emerged, no political party existed as a national entity, and politicians from both North and South had come to believe that those on the other side had subverted the American political tradition.
Catalogue of the Library of the Law School of Harvard University
Author: Harvard Law School. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
Book Description
Catalogue of the Everett Public Library
Author: Everett Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Prologue to Conflict
Author: Holman HamiltonPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813183081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This account of the failed Compromise of 1850 a decade before the Civil War “has all the suspense of a novel . . . incisive and provocative” (The Journal of American History). In 1850, America was expanding rapidly westward as countless citizens went in search of land, opportunity—and, thanks to the gold rush in California, fortune. With settlements growing into towns and towns growing into cities, there was an urgent need for state and local government. But the simmering tension over slavery that existed between North and South would boil over as the effort to draw boundaries and establish civil administration proceeded. The slave states were concerned about the delicate balance of power tipping in the North’s favor, while the free states were wary about an expansion of slavery. The debate in the United States Senate lasted for months, and the nation waited anxiously for a resolution. This book tells the story of these events and analyzes their political complexities—and how they served as a dramatic prologue to the civil war that would erupt a decade later.