Texas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Author : Charles Latham Moore
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Kansas-Nebraska bill
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Author : Charles Latham Moore
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Kansas-Nebraska bill
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Author : John R. Wunder
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780803248168
The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 turns upside down the traditional way of thinking about one of the most important laws ever passed in American history. The act that created Nebraska and Kansas also, in effect, abolished the Missouri Compromise, which had prohibited slavery in the region since 1820. This bow to local control outraged the nation and led to vicious confrontations, including Kansas' subsequent mini-civil war. At the 150th anniversary of the Kansas-Nebraska Act these scholars reexamine the political, social, and personal contexts of this act and its effect on the course of American history.
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Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 1854
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Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Kansas-Nebraska bill
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Author : United States. Congress
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Canals, Interoceanic
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Chiefly speeches delevered in Congress concerning the Kansas-Nebraska bill, 1854. Other topics are the annexation of Texas, 1845, and the Central American treaty with Great Britain, 1850.
Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 2018-07-23
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ISBN : 9781723525346
Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise is a classic speech by Abraham Lincoln.
Author : Nicole Etcheson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2004-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0700614923
Few people would have expected bloodshed in Kansas Territory. After all, it had few slaves and showed few signs that slavery would even flourish. But civil war tore this territory apart in the 1850s and 60s, and "Bleeding Kansas" became a forbidding symbol for the nationwide clash over slavery that followed. Many free-state Kansans seemed to care little about slaves, and many proslavery Kansans owned not a single slave. But the failed promise of the Kansas-Nebraska Act-when fraud in local elections subverted the settlers' right to choose whether Kansas would be a slave or free state-fanned the flames of war. While other writers have cited slavery or economics as the cause of unrest, Nicole Etcheson seeks to revise our understanding of this era by focusing on whites' concerns over their political liberties. The first comprehensive account of "Bleeding Kansas" in more than thirty years, her study re-examines the debate over slavery expansion to emphasize issues of popular sovereignty rather than slavery's moral or economic dimensions. The free-state movement was a coalition of settlers who favored black rights and others who wanted the territory only for whites, but all were united by the conviction that their political rights were violated by nonresident voting and by Democratic presidents' heavy-handed administration of the territories. Etcheson argues that participants on both sides of the Kansas conflict believed they fought to preserve the liberties secured by the American Revolution and that violence erupted because each side feared the loss of meaningful self-governance. Bleeding Kansas is a gripping account of events and people-rabble-rousing Jim Lane, zealot John Brown, Sheriff Sam Jones, and others-that examines the social milieu of the settlers along with the political ideas they developed. Covering the period from the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act to the 1879 Exoduster Migration, it traces the complex interactions among groups inside and outside the territory, creating a comprehensive political, social, and intellectual history of this tumultuous period in the state's history. As Etcheson demonstrates, the struggle over the political liberties of whites may have heightened the turmoil but led eventually to a broadening of the definition of freedom to include blacks. Her insightful re-examination sheds new light on this era and is essential reading for anyone interested in the ideological origins of the Civil War.
Author : Stephen Arnold Douglas
Publisher :
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Kansas
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Author : Charles Sumner
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Kansas
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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 : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 039308082X
“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.