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Published: 06 April 2020
... Shelledy Garland B straw polls Cothren Montgomery M Dixon Luther —1863 judicial Wisconsin Fairchild Lucius Meredith Solomon Wisconsin politics Rhode Island troops emancipation Abraham Lincoln resolutions loyalty newspapers conscription Copperheads Hugh Roden was barely sixteen when he...
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Published: 06 April 2020
... Christian McAllister Robert education New Jersey troops Norris Thomas D Allen Thomas —Ninth Corps “Mud March” 1863 Owen Thomas J Abraham Lincoln George McClellan 1864 election veterans voting Capt. George A. Wilbur crossed the dangerous stretch of Virginia countryside between the lines...
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Published: 27 April 2020
.... Northern Democrats rallied behind Douglas and popular sovereignty, completing the party fracture. The election of Abraham Lincoln and subsequent secession crisis pushed Davis and Douglas’s wings of the Democracy even further apart. Douglas denounced secession and urged compromise, while Davis tentatively...
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Published: 08 November 2022
...During the election of 1860, the Democratic Party finally split in two. Northern and southern Democrats nominated and ran separate candidates, which split the vote and helped hand the election to Republican Abraham Lincoln. During the nominating conventions, both northern and southern Democrats...
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Published: 18 January 2021
...The prologue uses Abraham Lincoln’s 1838 address to the Springfield, Illinois Young Men’s Lyceum to establish the context of nineteenth-century American exceptionalist anxiety. Lincoln feared that the early republic’s growing distance from the founding generation had caused a public crisis...
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Published: 18 January 2021
... Know Nothing Party Frémont John C Buchanan James “isms ” Butler Andrew Calhoun Andrew Nicaragua Brown John Brown William Wells Harpers Ferry Virginia Redpath James Rhett Robert Barnwell Keitt Laurence M Lee Robert E Norton Charles Eliot Stuart J E B Abraham Lincoln Crisis Union...
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Published: 23 March 2020
...The war for Union, Abraham Lincoln reasoned, would be won on its balance sheet as much as in the hearts and minds of its citizens. This was true both from the perspective of the War Department and individual northern households. Union soldiers—volunteers, draftees, and substitutes—poured from...
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Published: 02 September 2014
... Niagara Movement Ohio passim Afrikan Heritage House Carr Robert Kenneth Finney Chapel Krislov Marvin Mississippi Oberlin Radical Club Stewart Philo Penfield Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Tappan Square Oberlin Abraham Lincoln antislavery movement abolitionist movement...
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Published: 22 April 2013
...This chapter focuses on the official dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Gleaming white, the enormous neoclassical marble temple housed a larger-than-life statue of Abraham Lincoln, seated, with huge hands to symbolize the generosity he insisted upon and the bigness of his...
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Published: 25 April 2016
... Henry Harvey James E Thomas Corwin William Henry Seward Abraham Lincoln Charles Francis Adams William Pitt Fessenden Maine Peace Conference Plan Washington DC Lincoln’s cabinet constitutional amendment Stephen A. Douglas Crittenden Compromise Their train plunged through the late winter...
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Published: 25 April 2016
...Chapter Eleven begins with Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural address on March 4, 1861. He pointedly denied that he or the Republican Party intended to “interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.” He had neither the “lawful right” nor the “inclination” to do so. Lincoln...
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Published: 25 April 2016
... of 1850 Cotton States Phillips Wendell Stevens Thaddeus Sumner Charles Amesbury Mass Quakers Society of Friends William Henry Seward Thurlow Weed Abraham Lincoln John Greenleaf Whittier Daniel Webster Committee of Thirteen territorial compromise Crittenden Compromise constitutional amendment...
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Published: 29 September 1997
...The chapter opens with a discussion on the election of Abraham Lincoln and his impact on the secession crisis. This development resulted in several slave states from the upper South seceding from the Union. The Southern clergy and churches made a major contribution toward this secession crisis...
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Published: 07 March 2005
... to Abraham Lincoln's assassination and to the capture of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. It concludes by suggesting that the collapse of the Confederacy took away a fundamental focus of Southern identity, but that the Confederates' sense of national identity remained flexible and resilient. Army...
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Published: 03 October 2016
...This chapter describes the intellectual history of full employment. It shows how the left of today has inherited its preoccupation with labor from Hegel. It shows how Americans continue to cling to the Protestant Work Ethic. Abraham Lincoln Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Protestant Work Ethic...
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Published: 30 October 2017
...This chapter discusses the campaign strategies of the two main presidential candidates in the free states in the 1860 election, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. Both appealed to voters’ desire to contain the Slave Power and assure access to the West for free white settlers. The core...
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Published: 30 October 2017
... Duvergier de Tocqueville Alexis de Secession Crisis Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Conservatism Having virtually imprisoned his aging father to prevent him from endorsing the Black Republicans, George Dock, the Harrisburg doctor and committed lifelong Democrat, thought the nation was descending...
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Published: 10 October 2011
...This chapter focuses on the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Joseph Holt—Kentucky. In the early years of the nineteenth century, Kentucky was a new, largely unsettled but rapidly developing state. Earnest white pioneers had first explored the region around 1750; George Washington...
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Published: 04 October 2010
...This chapter discusses reporter Jon Locke Scripps's campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln as the latter began to appear as a serious contender for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination. Borrowing a line from a favorite poem—Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,”—Lincoln told...
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Published: 12 September 2016
... McIlvane John Tyler John Forgie George Women in public life Reid Ronald Petigru James L Reform culture of American Civil War Emancipation Gettysburg National Cemetery Abraham Lincoln Anglo-American relations Southern Unionists The American Civil War that Edward Everett had tried so hard...