The Antebellum era : primary documents on events from 1820 to 1860
"Firsthand accounts offer students, scholars, or anyone interested in the pivotal period preceding the Civil War a look at how America's press covered important national issues and events of the day, from the passage of the Missouri Compromise through John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Using editorials, letters, essays, and news reports that appeared throughout the country, Copeland reveals how editors, politicians, and other Americans used the press to influence opinion
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xiii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780313320798, 0313320799
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Newspapers and antebellum America
The Missouri Compromise, 1820
The Back-to-Africa Movement, 1822
The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
The elections of 1824 and 1828
The Massachusetts Public School Act, 1827
The South Carolina Tariff Conflict, 1828
The Indian Removal Act, 1830
William Lloyd Garrison and the abolitionist movement, 1831
Nat Turner and slave insurrections, 1831
The Nullification Act, 1832
The Bank of the United States, 1832
The penny press and the moral war, 1833
The Alamo and Texas annexation, 1836
The Trail of Tears, 1838
The Amistad and Cinque, 1839
The Dorr Rebellion, 1842
Joseph Smith and the Mormons, 1844
Manifest Destiny, 1845
The War with Mexico, 1846
The Wilmot Proviso, 1846
Seneca Falls and women's rights, 1848
The California gold rush, 1848
The compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act, 1850
Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
The caning of Charles Sumner, 1856
The Dred Scott decision, 1857
The Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
John Brown's raid, 1859