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Total Pages : 93 pages
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Download or read book California Politics, 1857, 1861 written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kimberly Johnston-Dodds
Publisher : California Research Bureau
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians written by Kimberly Johnston-Dodds and published by California Research Bureau. This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by the California Research Bureau at the request of Senator John L. Burton, this Web-site is a PDF document on early California laws and policies related to the Indians of the state and focuses on the years 1850-1861. Visitors are invited to explore such topics as loss of lands and cultures, the governors and the militia, reports on the Mendocino War, absence of legal rights, and vagrancy and punishment.
Author : Jessie Benton Frémont
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Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Year of American Travel written by Jessie Benton Frémont and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessie Benton Frémont (1824-1902), the daughter of a Missouri Senator and wife of explorer John Charles Frémont, first came to California in 1849, when she and her young daughter spent six months at her husband's newly-acquired ranch at Mariposas, 140 miles east of San Francisco. The Frémonts also spent the years 1851-1852 and 1857-1861 at the Mariposas ranch before moving to St. Louis during the Civil War. They returned to California in 1887 and made Los Angeles their home for the rest of their lives. A year of American travel (1878) was written by Mrs. Frémont to earn badly-needed money for her family after her husband went bankrupt in 1873. Here she describes her first trip to California in 1849: the voyage and crossing at Chagres, life on the Mariposas ranch, visits to San José and Monterey, the life of women in California, the plight of the Mission Indians, the slavery controversy in the territory, and the Monterey Constitutional Convention of 1849. The book closes with the Frémonts' return to the East when Frémont assumed his seat in the U.S. Senate.
Author : United States
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Total Pages : 16 pages
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Download or read book The Fugitive Slave Bill written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bidwell
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Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (546 download)
Download or read book Life in California Before the Gold Discovery written by John Bidwell and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
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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 : Leonard L. Richards
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307277577
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War written by Leonard L. Richards and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.
Author : Charles Sumner
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book The Crime Against Kansas written by Charles Sumner and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Marcus Baker
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Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Survey of the Northwestern Boundary of the United States, 1857-1861 written by Marcus Baker and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian McGinty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493045350
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Archy Lee's Struggle for Freedom written by Brian McGinty and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In San Francisco, CA, in 1858, a young African American man was freed from the claims of a white man who sought to return him to slavery in Mississippi. This was one year after the Supreme Court’s notorious Dred Scott decision and during the California Gold Rush, which saw the population of the state rise from 7,000 to more than 60,000 in a few short years. Archy Lee was the name of the man who, with the aid of anti-slavery lawyers and determined opponents of human bondage, had just won his freedom from the claims of Charles Stovall. With the aid of pro-slavery lawyers and equally determined supporters, Stovall had sought to capture him and carry him back to a far-away slave plantation. Yet the book is not solely about Archy Lee. It is also about the travel routes that the gold-seekers followed to California in the 1850s, some by land over the Great Plains, some by sea around Cape Horn, yet others by sailing from the east coast of North America to the isthmus of Panama, where they crossed over the land there by train and continued on by sea to San Francisco. It is about the efforts of the racially motivated lawmakers to suppress the rights of all of California’s residents except whites, and to subject people of African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American descent to second-, third-, or even fourth-class citizenship. It is about the residents of the state—including many whites—who fought back against those efforts, seeking to ameliorate or repeal the discriminatory laws and introduce a measure of fairness and justice into California’s civil life. It is about the lawyers and judges who participated in Archy Lee’s legal struggles in 1858, some supporting his claims for freedom while others ferociously opposed them and, in the process, elevated their own political and professional profiles.
Author : Waterman L. Ormsby
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789125588
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Butterfield Overland Mail written by Waterman L. Ormsby and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the classic firsthand account by Waterman L. Ormsby, a reporter who in 1858 crossed the western states as the sole through passenger of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage on its first trip from St. Louis to San Francisco. Ormsby’s reports, which soon appeared in the New York Herald, are lively and exciting. He describes the journey in close detail, giving full accounts of the accommodations, the other passengers, the country through which they passed, the dangers to which they were exposed, and the constant necessity for speed. “A most interesting account of the first westbound trip of an overland mail stage.”—Southern California Historical Society Quarterly “The best narrative of the trip and one of the best accounts of western travel by stage.”—Pacific Historical Review “If other travelers had been as careful and observant as Ormsby we should know vastly more about our country and the ways of our fathers than we do...The book is fascinating. It will prove interesting to all who care for travelogues, the history of the West, and particularly to those interested in our economic history.”—Journal of Economic History
Author : William Henry Brewer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520027626
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Up and Down California in 1860-1864 written by William Henry Brewer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal seems to contain information for everyone regardless of one's interest...Each page of this almost six hundred page journal is crammed with facts and descriptions. So much of interest is contained in every entry that each re-reading will reveal many interesting incidents or observations not quite grasped on the first perusal....This book will be a valuable source to all students of California or United States history and to the casual readers as well.
Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
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Total Pages : 1662 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gene C. Armistead
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674612
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book "An Arch Rebel Like Myself" written by Gene C. Armistead and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Showalter was Speaker Pro Tem of the California State Assembly at the outbreak of the Civil War and the exemplar of treason in the Far West among the pro-Union press. He gained notoriety as the survivor of California's last political (and actual, fatal) duel, for his role in the display of a Confederate flag in Sacramento, and for his imprisonment after an armed confrontation with Union troops. Escaping to Texas, he distinguished himself in the Confederate service in naval battles and in pursuit of Comanche raiders. As commander of the 4th Arizona Cavalry, he helped recapture the Rio Grande Valley from the Union and defended Brownsville against a combined Union and Mexican force. Refusing to surrender at war's end, he fled to Mexico, where he died of a wound sustained in a drunken bar fight at age 35.
Author : Lewis Carstairs Gunn
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Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Records of a California Family written by Lewis Carstairs Gunn and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Carstairs Gunn (1813-1892) and Elizabeth LeBreton Stickney (1811-1906) made their home in Philadelphia after their marriage in 1839, and Lewis left for California in 1849, with his wife and four children joining him two years later. Records of a California family (1928) begins with Lewis Gunn's journal describing his journey from New Orleans to Mexico and then to San Francisco and his life as a miner on the San Joaqun̕, 1849-1850. Mrs. Gunn's letters chronicle her voyage round the Horn with four children in 1851 and their life in Sonora (1851-1861), where her husband published the Sonora Herald and owned a drugstore. She records the affairs of a family (housework, schools, medical care), newspaper publishing, and politics. The Gunns were longtime abolitionists, and Lewis's role in keeping California a free state is detailed. In 1861 the family moved to San Francisco, and the book closes with chapters by Anna Marston summarizing their life there in the 1860s and their later experiences in San Diego.
Author : Michael Fitzgibbon Holt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471408406
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 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 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James M. McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199375798
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The War That Forged a Nation written by James M. McPherson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations." In fact, five generations have passed, and Americans are still trying to measure the influence of the immense fratricidal conflict that nearly tore the nation apart. In The War that Forged a Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson considers why the Civil War remains so deeply embedded in our national psyche and identity. The drama and tragedy of the war, from its scope and size--an estimated death toll of 750,000, far more than the rest of the country's wars combined--to the nearly mythical individuals involved--Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson--help explain why the Civil War remains a topic of interest. But the legacy of the war extends far beyond historical interest or scholarly attention. Here, McPherson draws upon his work over the past fifty years to illuminate the war's continuing resonance across many dimensions of American life. Touching upon themes that include the war's causes and consequences; the naval war; slavery and its abolition; and Lincoln as commander in chief, McPherson ultimately proves the impossibility of understanding the issues of our own time unless we first understand their roots in the era of the Civil War. From racial inequality and conflict between the North and South to questions of state sovereignty or the role of government in social change--these issues, McPherson shows, are as salient and controversial today as they were in the 1860s. Thoughtful, provocative, and authoritative, The War that Forged a Nation looks anew at the reasons America's civil war has remained a subject of intense interest for the past century and a half, and affirms the enduring relevance of the conflict for America today.
