Voices from the gathering storm : the coming of the American Civil War
Explains the change in thinking about the nature and value of the American Union from 1846 to 1861 which impelled citizens from 11 southern states to declare independence.
Print Book, English, ©2001
Scholarly Resources, Wilmington, Del., ©2001
History
xxxii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780842029988, 9780842029995, 0842029982, 0842029990
46660102
A growing rivalry between the North and South, 1846-1854. The Mexican War, the Wilmot Proviso, and the election of 1848 ; The Compromise of 1850 ; The fugitive slave controversy, the election of 1852, and growing sectionalism
Southern successes, Northern anxieties, 1854-1857. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, bleeding Kansas, and the Republican Party ; The election of 1856 and its aftermath
The Union comes apart, 1857-1861. Dred Scott, Kansas, and the events of 1858 ; John Brown's raid, party conventions, the election of 1860, and secession