Politics and America in Crisis
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Politics and America in Crisis

The Coming of the Civil War

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
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Politics and America in Crisis

The Coming of the Civil War

About this book

This book unravels the political developments that made the Civil War unavoidable. Politics and America in Crisis: The Coming of the Civil War examines the developments between 1846 and 1861 that pushed the nation to war to see what they reveal about the North, the South, the people leading them, and the issues separating them. As shown here, in the decade and a half before the actual outbreak of the war, the mostly southern Democratic Party's fortunes veered from a presidential election victory in 1852 to the shocking loss of Abraham Lincoln in 1860—an event that marked the coming of age of the young antislavery Republican Party. In examining that sharp reversal, Politics and America in Crisis covers a wide range of key events, including efforts to ban slavery in territories won in the Mexican-American War, the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown's raids.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780275990954
eBook ISBN
9780313081743

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Series Foreword
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Prologue: The Evolution of American Politics
  8. Chapter One: Provisos and Spots: The Cracking of Old Coalitions
  9. Chapter Two: The Compromise of 1850
  10. Chapter Three: “A Hell of a Storm”: The Aftermath of Compromise
  11. Chapter Four: Bleeding Parties, Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Sumner
  12. Chapter Five: A New President, a New Party, a New Constitutional Clash
  13. Chapter Six: Great Debates and Greater Debates
  14. Chapter Seven: Purging the Land with Blood
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliographical Essay
  17. Index
  18. About the Author