Shapers of the Great Debate on the Civil War: A Biographical DictionaryBloomsbury Academic, 30 июл. 2005 г. - Всего страниц: 436 With the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1848, the United States seemed poised to fulfill the manifest destiny that was on the lips of journalists and politicians. Yet, even before the war was over, tensions over the issue of slavery erupted. Slavery symbolized the social, cultural, constitutional, and economic differences that were dividing the North and South. Through four years of bloody civil war and the loss of over 600,000 lives, the American republic decided the fate of slavery, asserted the supremacy of the federal government over state authority, and began to grapple with the difficult issues of reconstruction. This work provides substantial biographical entries of 20 individuals who shaped and defined the debates during the Civil War period. Political and military figures, such as Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, and abolitionist reformers, such as Frederick Douglass and George Fitzhugh, are included. |
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... argued that the president had committed no crime . Moreover , even if the law was constitutional , Johnson and his attorneys argued that the law did not apply to Stanton because Lincoln , not Johnson , appointed him . Since Johnson had ...
... argued that only by taking the strategic initiative could he keep the numerically superior North from defeating his army and capturing Rich- mond . Had Lee taken a defensive posture , he would have , he argued , been forced back into ...
... argued that Congress had the right to prohibit slavery in federal territories as well as abolish the institution in the nation's capital . Stevens forcefully outlined his positions in the House during the debate over the Compromise of ...
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JOHN BROWN 18001859 | 1 |
JAMES BUCHANAN 17911868 | 13 |
SALMON CHASE 18081873 | 31 |
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