And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil WarAlgora Publishing, 2005 - Počet stran: 284 This detailed account of slavery in America, from Jamestown through the Civil War, explains its economic importance in the North as well as the South, its impact on the political dynamics of the Civil War, and the moral dilemmas it posed--Provided by publisher. |
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Strana 1
... soldiers pro- claiming allegiance to the State of South Carolina were under the command of General Gustave Pierre Toutant Beauregard, recently Superintendent of West Point, the toast of this fair town, dapper, debonair, a “fox-faced ...
... soldiers pro- claiming allegiance to the State of South Carolina were under the command of General Gustave Pierre Toutant Beauregard, recently Superintendent of West Point, the toast of this fair town, dapper, debonair, a “fox-faced ...
Strana 6
... soldiers in the Grand Armée of France. The bow wave of British naval preeminence cleared the way for England to capture most of the slave trade. In the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), following the War of the Spanish Succession, the British ...
... soldiers in the Grand Armée of France. The bow wave of British naval preeminence cleared the way for England to capture most of the slave trade. In the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), following the War of the Spanish Succession, the British ...
Strana 15
... soldiers to maintain the peace. While this decision infuriated colonial leaders in the North, these taxes had little effect on Southern plantation owners because most of what the plantation consumed was manufactured on site, and was not ...
... soldiers to maintain the peace. While this decision infuriated colonial leaders in the North, these taxes had little effect on Southern plantation owners because most of what the plantation consumed was manufactured on site, and was not ...
Strana 18
... soldiers to put down the rebellion. King George was growing increasingly impatient with the American Colonies. When a British ship landed in Boston with three British major-generals. A local wit was moved to poetry: Six months before ...
... soldiers to put down the rebellion. King George was growing increasingly impatient with the American Colonies. When a British ship landed in Boston with three British major-generals. A local wit was moved to poetry: Six months before ...
Strana 26
... soldiers and a Captain Preston to his aid. The crowd threw oyster shells, pieces of ice and wood at the soldiers, while yelling insults and challenges. One soldier lost his footing under the bombardment and guns went off. People in the ...
... soldiers and a Captain Preston to his aid. The crowd threw oyster shells, pieces of ice and wood at the soldiers, while yelling insults and challenges. One soldier lost his footing under the bombardment and guns went off. People in the ...
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3 The Missouri Compromise | 37 |
4 A Besieged South Circles the Wagons | 53 |
5 The Gag Rule Fight | 61 |
One Party Dead The Other Split | 71 |
7 Abraham Lincoln in Illinois | 83 |
A Dark Horse | 93 |
Opportunity Squandered | 149 |
15 Slaughter at Fredericksburg Jubilee with Emancipation | 163 |
Lincolns Depression Grows | 175 |
The Writing on the Wall | 183 |
General Grant | 199 |
Something Went Out of the War | 211 |
20 Confederate Disaster in Tennessee And the 13th Amendment | 223 |
21 Lee Surrenders at Appomattox | 235 |
9 Lincoln Elected Seven States Defected | 103 |
10 An Act of War | 113 |
Disillusion and Frustration | 121 |
LargeScale Killing Shocks the Nation | 131 |
McClellan spooked by Lee | 139 |
22 Lincoln Assassinated His Severe Task Done | 245 |
The Man John Quincy Adams was Looking For | 257 |
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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War Donald J. Meyers Omezený náhled - 2005 |
And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War Donald J. Meyers Omezený náhled - 2005 |
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