Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil WarUniv of North Carolina Press, 1999/08/01 - 396 ページ 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 th |
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Introduction | 1 |
John Tylers Hobby Territorial Expansion and Jacksonian Politics | 13 |
Miltons Devil Slavery Restriction and the Revolutionary Heritage 18201846 | 39 |
Washington Redux The Whig Party and the Politics of Slavery 18461848 | 66 |
Tower of Babel Social Ideology and the Crisis of Territorial Organization 18491850 | 96 |
Of Pegasus and Bellerophon Popular Sovereignty Stephen A Douglas and the Origins of the KansasNebraska Act | 126 |
A House Dividing The Conspiracy Thesis Joined and Defined | 157 |
To the Egress Humbug and the Disruption of the Democracy | 188 |
The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Disruption of the Second Party System | 219 |
We Stand Where Our Fathers Stood | 252 |
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