Meet General GrantAmerikansk historie, USA's historie, amerikansk biografi om General Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1889, som først havde en militær karriere, bl.a. i Mexican War, og blev en berømt general i Nordstatshæren, Union Army, under den Amerikanske Borgerkrig, 1861-1865, og senere endte som amerikansk president. Beskriver hans liv, levnedsløb og militære og politiske karriere. Udkom i 1928. |
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Page 64
... slavery was losing ground as an American institution . Many Southerners of ability and foresight were abolitionists while the Northern people had hardly begun to think of the slavery question at all . Washington , Jefferson and most of ...
... slavery was losing ground as an American institution . Many Southerners of ability and foresight were abolitionists while the Northern people had hardly begun to think of the slavery question at all . Washington , Jefferson and most of ...
Page 65
... slaves to the rich young lands of Mississippi . Slavery ran like a tidal wave across the Gulf states . Whitney's invention was the most momentous achievement of a single individual that has ever occurred on the American continent . It ...
... slaves to the rich young lands of Mississippi . Slavery ran like a tidal wave across the Gulf states . Whitney's invention was the most momentous achievement of a single individual that has ever occurred on the American continent . It ...
Page 66
... slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling against it in the great mass of Northern people . The opposition to slavery was kept alive by small groups of intelligentsia , or reformers , who were disliked by their ...
... slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling against it in the great mass of Northern people . The opposition to slavery was kept alive by small groups of intelligentsia , or reformers , who were disliked by their ...
Page 67
... slavery area , bitterly opposed the admission of Missouri unless its state constitution prohibited the ownership of slaves within its borders . For the first time thousands of easy - going people realized that the country was already ...
... slavery area , bitterly opposed the admission of Missouri unless its state constitution prohibited the ownership of slaves within its borders . For the first time thousands of easy - going people realized that the country was already ...
Page 69
... slavery was to be debarred from all territory situated west of the Mississippi River and north of the 36 ° 30 ' parallel of latitude , which is the southern border line of the state of Missouri . The country was divided by the Missouri ...
... slavery was to be debarred from all territory situated west of the Mississippi River and north of the 36 ° 30 ' parallel of latitude , which is the southern border line of the state of Missouri . The country was divided by the Missouri ...
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