The Union in Crisis, 1850-1877
Author: Robert Walter Johannsen
Publisher: New York : Free Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Walter Johannsen
Publisher: New York : Free Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eric H. Walther
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780842027991
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 1850s offered the last remotely feasible chance for the United States to steer clear of Civil War. Yet fundamental differences between North and South about slavery and the meaning of freedom caused political conflicts to erupt again and again throughout the decade as the country lurched toward secession and war. The Shattering of the Union is a concise, readable analysis and survey of the major ideas and events that resulted in the Civil War. The first scholarly synthesis of America's final antebellum decade to be published in more than twenty years, this essential overview incorporates methods and findings by recognized historians on politics, society, race relations, ideology, and slavery. This book is a fascinating look at one of the pivotal decades in U.S. history.
Author: William L. Barney
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 374
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A broadly interpretive survey of the Civil War and Reconstruction including events leading up to the War and until the 1880's.
Author: John C. Waugh
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780842029452
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book tells the dramatic story of what happened when a handful of senators tried to hammer out a compromise to save the Union.
Author: C. Vann Woodward
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1991-03-28
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0199727856
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between the era of America's landmark antebellum compromises and that of the Compromise of 1877, a war had intervened, destroying the integrity of the Southern system but failing to determine the New South's relation to the Union. While it did not restore the old order in the South, or restore the South to parity with the Union, it did lay down the political foundations for reunion, bring Reconstruction to an end, and shape the future of four million freedmen. Originally published in 1951, this classic work by one of America's foremost experts on Southern history presents an important new interpretation of the Compromise, forcing historians to revise previous attitudes towards the Reconstruction period, the history of the Republican party, and the realignment of forces that fought the Civil War. Because much of the negotiating occurred in secrecy, historians have known less about this Compromise than others before it. Now reissued with a new introduction by Woodward, Reunion and Reaction gives us the other half of the story.
Author: Paul Finkelman
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2012-01-31
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780821419779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the long decade from 1848 to 1861 America was like a train speeding down the track, without an engineer or brakes. The new territories acquired from Mexico had vastly increased the size of the nation, but debate over their status—and more importantly the status of slavery within them—paralyzed the nation. Southerners gained access to the territories and a draconian fugitive slave law in the Compromise of 1850, but this only exacerbated sectional tensions. Virtually all northerners, even those who supported the law because they believed that it would preserve the union, despised being turned into slave catchers. In 1854, in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Congress repealed the ban on slavery in the remaining unorganized territories. In 1857, in the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court held that all bans on slavery in the territories were unconstitutional. Meanwhile, northern whites, free blacks, and fugitive slaves resisted the enforcement of the 1850 fugitive slave law. In Congress members carried weapons and Representative Preston Brooks assaulted Senator Charles Sumner with a cane, nearly killing him. This was the decade of the 1850s and these were the issues Congress grappled with. This volume of new essays examines many of these issues, helping us better understand the failure of political leadership in the decade that led to the Civil War.
Author: George Edward Stanley
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Secondary Library
Published: 2004-12-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780836858358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1815, more states and territories were being added to the Union. The issue of slavery soon began to divide the nation. This book tells the story of the events that led to the Civil War and how President Abraham Lincoln fought to preserve the Union, while the Confederacy fought to maintain its way of life. By the end of the war, the South lay in ruins, and the country mourned the death of its great president. Book jacket.
Author: Charles Sumner
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Speech delivered in the Senate condemning the Southern expansion of slavery and the force used in compelling Kansas to be a slave state. In the course of the speech, Sumner ridicules South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler.
Author: The National Archives
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-07-04
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0198042272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United States. The entry for each document includes a short introduction, a facsimile, and a transcript of the document. Backmatter includes further reading, credits, and index. The book is part of the much larger Our Documents initiative sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), National History Day, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the USA Freedom Corps.