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 15
... voted to ban most trade with Great Britain. The five South Carolina delegates threatened to walk out unless an exception to the embargo was made for rice exports. The exception was made. It would become a major argument used by Southern ...
... voted to ban most trade with Great Britain. The five South Carolina delegates threatened to walk out unless an exception to the embargo was made for rice exports. The exception was made. It would become a major argument used by Southern ...
Strana 19
... vote for independence. On the floor he urged the assembly to call the troops a Conti- nental Army, to name a general to lead it, to arm and sustain it and to tell England what they were about. He asked the assembly to warn England that ...
... vote for independence. On the floor he urged the assembly to call the troops a Conti- nental Army, to name a general to lead it, to arm and sustain it and to tell England what they were about. He asked the assembly to warn England that ...
Strana 21
... vote of Joseph Hewes of North Carolina. Adams had been working indefatigably on this delegate. His ardor was rewarded. Suddenly, Hewes declared his support of Lee's resolution. It would carry. Adams later recalled, with relish, the ...
... vote of Joseph Hewes of North Carolina. Adams had been working indefatigably on this delegate. His ardor was rewarded. Suddenly, Hewes declared his support of Lee's resolution. It would carry. Adams later recalled, with relish, the ...
Strana 22
... vote. A clatter of hooves...Caesar Rodney, delayed by a storm, rode in, breathlessly, on his horse. He spoke in ... voting for Independence!” Virginia had instructed its delegation to declare for Independence weeks before the Congress ...
... vote. A clatter of hooves...Caesar Rodney, delayed by a storm, rode in, breathlessly, on his horse. He spoke in ... voting for Independence!” Virginia had instructed its delegation to declare for Independence weeks before the Congress ...
Strana 27
... voted “yea” to this treasonous document were not drawn from democracy's masses, the men in the street. They were influential and often affluent pillars of the new society. Most of those from the North and some of those from the South ...
... voted “yea” to this treasonous document were not drawn from democracy's masses, the men in the street. They were influential and often affluent pillars of the new society. Most of those from the North and some of those from the South ...
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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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