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... called Know - Nothing . Anti- immigrant Americans , especially middle - class Protestants of Anglo - Saxon stock suspicious of Catholicism , had formed secret lodges to protest the arrival of Irish and Germans and to demand immigrant ...
... called Know - Nothing . Anti- immigrant Americans , especially middle - class Protestants of Anglo - Saxon stock suspicious of Catholicism , had formed secret lodges to protest the arrival of Irish and Germans and to demand immigrant ...
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... called for by the platforms " of both of the great parties . The embattled President called a summer session of the Republican Congress and chal- lenged it to pass legislation to carry out at once the party plat- form . Congress had no ...
... called for by the platforms " of both of the great parties . The embattled President called a summer session of the Republican Congress and chal- lenged it to pass legislation to carry out at once the party plat- form . Congress had no ...
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... called ) took the position in a speech at Freeport that ter- ritories could permit slavery or could exclude it by " police regu- lations . " Lincoln demolished that argument and sharpened in na- tional politics the demand for legal ...
... called ) took the position in a speech at Freeport that ter- ritories could permit slavery or could exclude it by " police regu- lations . " Lincoln demolished that argument and sharpened in na- tional politics the demand for legal ...
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PREFACE PART ITHE REPUBLICAN PARTY 1 Crisis and a New Party 73 | 7 |
1856 | 17 |
The Rise of Lincoln | 23 |
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