Busy in the Cause : Iowa, the Free-State Struggle in the West, and the Prelude to the Civil War.

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Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation's western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soike, Lowell J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska Paperback, 2014.
Temas:
1800-1899
Antislavery movements > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Abolitionists > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Iowa > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Abolitionnistes > Iowa > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements
Politics and government
War > Causes
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
Iowa > Politics and government > 19th century.
Iowa
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation's western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by questions regarding the place of slavery in westward expansion and by the increasing influence of evangelical Protestant faiths that viewed the institution as inherently sinful, political debates about slavery took on a radicalized, uncompromising fervor in states and territorie.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (501 pages)
ISBN:9780803273856
0803273851

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