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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 him a man of action equipped to guide the country to an even better day of economic and technological progress . He was for business and for indi- vidualism , he supported the " dry " side of the liquor controversy , and he stood ...
... called him a man of action equipped to guide the country to an even better day of economic and technological progress . He was for business and for indi- vidualism , he supported the " dry " side of the liquor controversy , and he stood ...
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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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Crisis and a New Party | 7 |
1856 | 15 |
The Rise of Lincoln | 23 |
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |