1849-1861
Author : United States. President
Publisher :
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1897
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : United States. President
Publisher :
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1897
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Kelli Hicks
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1617419095
An In-Depth Look At The American Presidents, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, And Buchanan.
Author : United States. President
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 1908
Category : United States
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Author : Robert W. Merry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1982176512
Exploring a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever, Decade of Disunion shows how the country came apart during the enveloping slavery crisis of the 1850s. The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new territories seemed unsuitable for the type of agriculture that depended on slave labor, but they lay south of the line where slavery was permitted by the 1820 Missouri Compromise. The subject of expanding slavery to the new territories became a flash point between North and South. First came the 1850 compromise legislation, which strengthened the fugitive slave law and outraged the North. Then in 1854, Congress repealed the Missouri Compromise altogether, unleashing a violent conflict in “Bleeding Kansas” over whether that territory would become free or slave. The 1857 Dred Scott decision—abrogating any rights of African Americans, enslaved or free—further outraged the North. And John Brown’s ill-planned 1859 attack at the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry stirred anger and fear throughout the South. Through a decade, South Carolina, whose economy depended heavily on slave labor, struggled over whether to secede in a stand-alone act of defiance or to do so only in conjunction with other states. Meanwhile, Massachusetts became the country’s antislavery epicenter but debated whether the Constitution was worth saving in the effort to abolish bondage. Both states widened the divide between North and South until disunion became inevitable. Then, in December 1860, in the wake of the Lincoln election, South Carolina finally seceded, leading the South out of the Union. Beginning with the deaths of the great second-generation figures of American history—Calhoun, Webster, and Clay—Decade of Disunion tells the story of this great American struggle through the aims, fears, and maneuvers of the subsequent prominent figures at the center of the drama, with particular attention to the key players from Massachusetts and South Carolina. This history is a sobering reminder that democracy is not self-sustaining—it must be constantly and carefully tended.
Author : Mark Wahlgren Summers
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :
An engaging, often lurid account of political corruption in pre-Civil War America, this book illustrates how corruption irritated sectional jealousies, discredited compromise, and ultimately aided in the death of the Union.
Author : Henry NICOL (Barrister-at-Law.)
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1861
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Author : Earl Schenck Miers
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781258446093
In Three Volumes. Volume 1, 1809-1848; Volume 2, 1849-1860; Volume 3, 1861-1865.
Author : United States. President
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release :
Category : Presidents
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Author : Jeff Strickland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1108681786
Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American South. With two accomplices, some sledgehammers, and pickaxes, Nicholas risked his life and helped thirty-six fellow enslaved people escape the workhouse where they had been sent by their enslavers to be tortured. While Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vesey remain the most recognizable rebels, the pivotal role of Nicholas Kelly is often forgotten. All for Liberty centers his rebellion as a decisive moment leading up to the secession of South Carolina from the United States in 1861. This compelling micro-history navigates between Nicholas's story and the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, while also considering the parallels between race and incarceration in the nineteenth century and in modern America. Never before has the story of Nicholas Kelly been so eloquently told.
Author : Matthew Pinsker
Publisher :
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 1995
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ISBN :