Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War AmericaThis book is a narrative history of the thirty-year struggle to outlaw slavery, starting with the founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1834 and extending until the abolition of slavery in the United States at the end of the Civil War. |
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... vote of four years before everywhere , whereas Cass fell short of Polk's total . Cass lost by 36 electoral votes . The Free Soil vote was crucial in only two states : New York and Ohio - giving the former to Taylor and the latter to ...
... vote in Wisconsin , which was voting for president for the first time , 26 percent in New York , Michigan with 16 ... vote . Taylor retained 98.2 percent of the Whig vote from 1844 nationally , and 95.3 percent in the North . Cass ...
... votes . Nearly all of Douglas's popular votes - all those outside of Missouri and New Jersey - were wasted . Most of Bell's wasted popular votes were in Maryland , where the popular vote was very close . Breckinridge carried Maryland by ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |