Shapers of the great debate on the Civil War : a biographical dictionary /
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,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2005.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0313061785 9780313061783 1282409387 9781282409385 9786612409387 661240938X |
| ISSN: | 1099-2693 ; |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 difficu. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 405 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Series: | Shapers of the great American debates ;
no. 6. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |