DK - The American Civil War
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A Question of Union As America’s population grew and people moved west, the driving forces in politics were domestic issues and ...
Later presidents were more supportive, however, and in 1845 Texas joined the United States. Mexico rejected the annexation, and ...
Congressman David Wilmot Wilmot himself proposed his proviso on essentially racist grounds. He intended to preserve Western land ...
SLAVERY DIVIDES THE COUNTRY Writers on both sides of the argument grew steadily more impassioned in their defense or condemnatio ...
Frederick Douglass to New Bedford, Massachusetts. There he settled, marrying Murray and changing his name to Douglass. While Dou ...
During the winter of 1844–45, Douglass wrote the first of three autobiographies. Friends advised him to destroy the manuscript f ...
religiously inspired activists saw blacks and whites as one family created by God, although many remained paternalistic toward b ...
Even as Northern views on abolition changed in the 1850s, an 11-year lawsuit came to fruition and fueled the abolitionist cause. ...
Throughout the South, slave auctions supplied the demand for slave labor, especially among plantation owners. African-Americans ...
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Franklin Pierce to invalidate the election, but Pierce, a political ally of Atchison, fired the governor instead. Rival state go ...
acceptance. Southern senators ostracized Douglas and made it clear he would never have their support for a future presidential r ...
attacked waiter Thomas Keating, triggering a dining room melee that ended with Herbert shooting the waiter dead. The Republicans ...
THE RISE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY The Republican Party exercised increasing power in Congress, but it prepared for the election o ...
The Raid at Harpers Ferry On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown and 21 men, including five free blacks and three of Brown ...
THE RAID AT HARPERS FERRY While many labeled Brown a fanatic or a lunatic, others—both in the North and the South—cherished his ...
The Election of 1860 The passions and conflicts of the preceding decade over states’ rights and slavery were embodied in the pre ...
Bell. Breckinridge carried the remaining Southern states, most of which barred Lincoln’s name from appearing on the ballot. Linc ...
AN IMPERFECT UNION Abraham Lincoln T ireless ambition was the driving force in Abraham Lincoln’s journey to the White House. In ...
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