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Prologue to Conflict
The Crisis and Compromise of 1850
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Artikel-Nr:
9780813191362
Veröffentl:
2005
Erscheinungsdatum:
22.04.2005
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Holman Hamilton
Gewicht:
347 g
Format:
216x140x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Holman Hamilton is the author of a two-volume work about Zachary Taylor. A former Guggenheim fellow, he also wrote The Three Kentucky Presidents.
" With a new introduction by Michael F. Holt The crisis facing the United States in 1850 was a dramatic prologue to the conflict that came a decade later. The rapid opening of western lands demanded the speedy establishment of local civil administration for these vast regions. Outraged partisans, however, cried of coercion: Southerners saw a threat to the precarious sectional balance, and Northerners feared an extension of slavery. In this definitive study, Holman Hamilton analyzes the complex events of the anxious months from December, 1849, when the Senate debates began, until September, 1850, when Congress passed the measures.