Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest DestinyUniv of North Carolina Press, 15. 11. 2000. - 416 страница Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution's legacy. Manifest Destiny promised the literal enlargement of freedom through the extension of American institutions all the way to the Pacific. At each step--from John Tyler's attempt to annex Texas in 1844, to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the opening shots of the Civil War--the issue of slavery had to be confronted. Morrison shows that the Revolution was the common prism through which northerners and southerners viewed these events and that the factor that ultimately made consensus impossible was slavery itself. By 1861, no nationally accepted solution to the dilemma of slavery in the territories had emerged, no political party existed as a national entity, and politicians from both North and South had come to believe that those on the other side had subverted the American political tradition. |
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... question in such a way as to allay the persistent and, to Stevenson's mind, infernal wrangle over the slavery issue. There were far more important matters than slavery to be considered when addressing the question offederal power and ...
... question in such a way as to allay the persistent and, to Stevenson's mind, infernal wrangle over the slavery issue. There were far more important matters than slavery to be considered when addressing the question offederal power and ...
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... question of freedom versus slavery. Finally, as we shall see, neither the North nor the South pursued a consistent position on states' rights. Northerners who supported the Wilmot Proviso and thus Congress's power to restrict the spread ...
... question of freedom versus slavery. Finally, as we shall see, neither the North nor the South pursued a consistent position on states' rights. Northerners who supported the Wilmot Proviso and thus Congress's power to restrict the spread ...
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... question of the annexation of Texas,” Ralph Waldo Emerson confided to his journal, “is one of those which look very ... question in the latter years of John Tyler's administration. Tyler first introduced the question of annexation into ...
... question of the annexation of Texas,” Ralph Waldo Emerson confided to his journal, “is one of those which look very ... question in the latter years of John Tyler's administration. Tyler first introduced the question of annexation into ...
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... questions merged & party lines & the dictation of leaders obliterated.” The editor of the New Orleans Morning Herald agreed: “The subject of annexation is the all absorbing question with us and that in refference to it all former party ...
... questions merged & party lines & the dictation of leaders obliterated.” The editor of the New Orleans Morning Herald agreed: “The subject of annexation is the all absorbing question with us and that in refference to it all former party ...
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... question but one that affected Americans everywhere. Texas would open to agriculture more fertile soils and congenial climates. It would furnish wider home markets for manufacturers, new articles for commerce, and additional rivers and ...
... question but one that affected Americans everywhere. Texas would open to agriculture more fertile soils and congenial climates. It would furnish wider home markets for manufacturers, new articles for commerce, and additional rivers and ...
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Slavery Restriction and the Revolutionary Heritage 18201846 | 39 |
The Whig Party and the Politics of Slavery 18461848 | 66 |
Social Ideology and the Crisis of Territorial Organization 18491850 | 96 |
Popular Sovereignty Stephen A Douglas and the Origins of the KansasNebraska Act | 126 |
The Conspiracy Thesis Joined and Defined | 157 |
Humbug and the Disruption of the Democracy | 188 |
8 The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Disruption of the Second Party System | 219 |
We Stand Where Our Fathers Stood | 252 |
Notes | 281 |
Select Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 389 |
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