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Author : Michael Fitzgibbon Holt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Political Crisis of the 1850s written by Michael Fitzgibbon Holt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1978 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael F. Holt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Political Crisis of the 1850s written by Michael F. Holt and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. F. Holt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The political crisis of the 1850s written by M. F. Holt and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John L. Brooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625344465
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (444 download)
Download or read book "There is a North" written by John L. Brooke and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does political change take hold? In the 1850s, politicians and abolitionists despaired, complaining that the North, the poor timid, mercenary, driveling North offered no forceful opposition to the power of the slaveholding South. And yet, as John L. Brooke proves, the North did change. Inspired by brave fugitives who escaped slavery and the cultural craze that was Uncle Tom's Cabin, the North rose up to battle slavery, ultimately waging the bloody Civil War. While Lincoln's alleged quip about the little woman who started the big war has been oft-repeated, scholars have not fully explained the dynamics between politics and culture in the decades leading up to 1861. Rather than simply viewing the events of the 1850s through the lens of party politics, There Is a North is the first book to explore how cultural action--including minstrelsy, theater, and popular literature--transformed public opinion and political structures. Taking the North's rallying cry as his title, Brooke shows how the course of history was forever changed.
Author : Eric H. Walther
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842027991
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (279 download)
Download or read book The Shattering of the Union written by Eric H. Walther and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael J. Birkner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book James Buchanan and the Political Crisis of the 1850s written by Michael J. Birkner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Buchanan entered the White House in March 1857, he seemed well positioned to accomplish his main objectives. A canny and seasoned politician from Pennsylvania with a reputation for moderation on slavery-related issues, Buchanan had a straightforward agenda: the amelioration of sectional tensions, the promotion of American prosperity, and the extension of the Democrats' control of the federal government. Four years later, Buchanan left Washington convinced that he had done his best and accomplished much. In fact, he left behind a shattered Democratic party, a new Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, and a ruptured Union. Except for a cadre of faithful Pennsylvania friends, Buchanan's reputation lay in ruins. He has consistently been ranked among the least effective presidents in American history.
Author : Tyler Anbinder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195089227
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Nativism and Slavery written by Tyler Anbinder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the United States has always portrayed itself as a sanctuary for the world's victim's of poverty and oppression, anti-immigrant movements have enjoyed remarkable success throughout American history. None attained greater prominence than the Order of the Star Spangled Banner, a fraternal order referred to most commonly as the Know Nothing party. Vowing to reduce the political influence of immigrants and Catholics, the Know Nothings burst onto the American political scene in 1854, and by the end of the following year they had elected eight governors, more than one hundred congressmen, and thousands of other local officials including the mayors of Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago. After their initial successes, the Know Nothings attempted to increase their appeal by converting their network of lodges into a conventional political organization, which they christened the "American Party." Recently, historians have pointed to the Know Nothings' success as evidence that ethnic and religious issues mattered more to nineteenth-century voters than better-known national issues such as slavery. In this important book, however, Anbinder argues that the Know Nothings' phenomenal success was inextricably linked to the firm stance their northern members took against the extension of slavery. Most Know Nothings, he asserts, saw slavery and Catholicism as interconnected evils that should be fought in tandem. Although the Know Nothings certainly were bigots, their party provided an early outlet for the anti-slavery sentiment that eventually led to the Civil War. Anbinder's study presents the first comprehensive history of America's most successful anti-immigrant movement, as well as a major reinterpretation of the political crisis that led to the Civil War.
Author : Ludwell H. Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Division and Reunion written by Ludwell H. Johnson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780821419779
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Congress and the Crisis of the 1850s written by Paul Finkelman and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael F. Holt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199830893
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party written by Michael F. Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written. He offers a panoramic account of the tumultuous antebellum period, a time when a flurry of parties and larger-than-life politicians--Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay--struggled for control as the U.S. inched towards secession. It was an era when Americans were passionately involved in politics, when local concerns drove national policy, and when momentous political events--like the Annexation of Texas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act--rocked the country. Amid this contentious political activity, the Whig Party continuously strove to unite North and South, emerging as the nation's last great hope to prevent secession.
Author : John Ashworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107024080
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861 written by John Ashworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously analyses the political climate in the years leading up to the American Civil War and the causes of that conflict.
Author : Holman Hamilton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813183081
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Prologue to Conflict written by Holman Hamilton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Michael F. Holt
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807126097
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln written by Michael F. Holt and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than twenty years Michael F. Holt has been considered one of the leading specialists in the political history of the United States. Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln is a collection of some of his more important shorter studies on the politics of nineteenth-century America.The collection focuses on the mass political parties that emerged in the 1820s and their role in broader political developments from that decade to 1865. Holt includes essays on the Democratic, Antimasonic, Whig, and Know Nothing parties, as well as one on Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the congressional wing of the Republican party during the Civil War. Almost all essays touch on the broad question of the role of partisan politics in explaining the outbreak of the war. Individual essays address the following questions as well: What explains the birth and death of powerful third parties? What was the relationship among economic conditions, party performance in office (especially legislative performance), and the mobilization of an unprecedented number of voters between 1836 and 1840? Why did the Whigs find it necessary to nominate military hero Zachary Taylor as their presidential candidate in 1848? What explains the death of the Whig party? What role did ethnoreligious issues and the Know Nothing party play in the realignment of the 1850s and the ultimate triumph of the Republican party? In what ways did the continuation of two-party competition after 1860 help the North win the Civil War?Most of the essays have been published previously over a twenty-year span, but there are also two new pieces. "The Mysterious Disappearance of the American Whig party," originally delivered as the Commonwealth Fund Lecture at University College London in February, 1990, seeks to explain why the Whig party died in the 1850s. This essay contrasts the fate of the Whig party with the fates of the Republican party in the 1930s and 1970s and the British Conservative party in the 1840s and 1850s - parties that survived similar, indeed graver, challenges than those to which the Whigs succumbed. In addition, Holt has written and excellent introduction in which he explains how he came to write the essays and reflects upon them in light of the current state of political history as a discipline.Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln offers provocative insights into both the history of nineteenth-century politics and the way it is studied.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gilded Age written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. J. M. Blackett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418716
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Captive's Quest for Freedom written by R. J. M. Blackett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.
Author : Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South written by Hinton Rowan Helper and published by Gale Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1860 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.
Author : Rachel A. Shelden
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469610868
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Washington Brotherhood written by Rachel A. Shelden and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional portrayals of politicians in antebellum Washington, D.C., describe a violent and divisive society, full of angry debates and violent duels, a microcosm of the building animosity throughout the country. Yet, in Washington Brotherhood, Rachel Shelden paints a more nuanced portrait of Washington as a less fractious city with a vibrant social and cultural life. Politicians from different parties and sections of the country interacted in a variety of day-to-day activities outside traditional political spaces and came to know one another on a personal level. Shelden shows that this engagement by figures such as Stephen Douglas, John Crittenden, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Stephens had important consequences for how lawmakers dealt with the sectional disputes that bedeviled the country during the 1840s and 1850s--particularly disputes involving slavery in the territories. Shelden uses primary documents--from housing records to personal diaries--to reveal the ways in which this political sociability influenced how laws were made in the antebellum era. Ultimately, this Washington "bubble" explains why so many of these men were unprepared for secession and war when the winter of 1860-61 arrived.
