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1 online resource (394 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Brief Table of Contents; FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS; Introduction: War: The Red Animal; Chapter 1 Slavery and the Long-term Roots of the Civil War; Slavery Takes Root in Early America; Rise of the Slave Trade; Slavery and the Constitution; The Cotton Boom; The Plantation South; Divisions Within the South; Northern Industrialization; Slavery and Sectionalism in the Early Republic; Chapter 2 The Sectional Crisis, 1830-1850; The Rise of the Second Party System; The 1840s, Texas Annexation, and Manifest Destiny; The Rise of Abolitionism and the Proslavery Defense |
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Importance of Westward ExpansionCrisis and Compromise in the Early 1850s; Chapter 3 The 1850s and Secession; The Fury over Uncle Tom's Cabin; Continued Controversy Over the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850; Bloody Kansas; A New Political Party; The Dred Scott Supreme Court Case; The Lincoln-Douglas Debates; John Brown's Raid; The Presidential Election of 1860; Secession; Lincoln and the Start of the War; Chapter 4 The War Begins; Importance of Upper South Secession; Battles and Military Maneuvering in the Spring and Summer of 1861; Mobilizing for War; Military Maneuvering in the West |
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The Eastern Theater in Early 1862Naval Warfare; Literary Responses to the Beginning of the Civil War; Chapter 5 Organizing and Mobilizing for War; Formation of the Confederate Government; Organization of the Union and Confederate Military; War in the Pacific Coast and Southwest; Native Americans in the Civil War; Communications and the Telegraph; Railroads During the War; Lincoln and Race at the Start of the War; Port Royal and Other Experiments with Freedom During the War; Chapter 6 In the Grip of War; Women and Gender During the War; War in the Summer of 1862; Emancipation Proclamation |
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Politics and PartiesChapter 7 Turning Points; The Eastern Theater in Early 1863; Ethnicity and Immigrants During the War; African American Soldiers and Sailors; The Battle of Gettysburg; Death and Medicine During the War; Prisoners and Prison Camps; New York Draft Riots and Class Conflict; The Western Theater in Early 1863; Chapter 8 War on the Home Front; Newspapers and Journalism During the War; Art and Music During the War; Internal Divisions Within the Confederacy; Business and War in the North and South; Chapter 9 The Union Grinds Toward Victory |
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Fighting in the Western Theater in Late 1863The Battlefield in Early 1864; Politics and the 1864 Presidential Campaign; Mobile Bay and the Fall of Atlanta; Sherman's March to the Sea; Chapter 10 Union Victory and African American Freedom; The Battlefield in Early 1865 and Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address; The Assassination of President Lincoln; Capture of Jefferson Davis; Emancipation!; Chapter 11 Reconstruction Begins; African Americans and the Freedmen's Bureau After the War; Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction; Politics and Elections; Congressional Reconstruction, 1866-1872 |
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Johnson's Impeachment |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317352341 |
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1317352343 |
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