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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Prelude to War, 1850–60
Sectionalism and Slavery
Slave Rebellions
A Decade of Political Crises
Popular Sovereignty
Document: Stephen A. Douglas: Defense of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Polarization Over Slavery
Document: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Boston, 1883, pp. 419–423
Document: Charles Sumner: The Crime Against Kansas (1856)
Dred Scott
“This Government Cannot Endure”
Document: Roger B. Taney: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Document: Abraham Lincoln: “A House Divided” (1858)
Raid on Harpers Ferry
A New President
Document: Henry David Thoreau: A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
Chapter 2: Secession and the Politics of the Civil War, 1860–65
The Coming of War
Document: Henry Timrod: “Ethnogenesis” (1861)
The First Shot Is Fired
The Political Course of the War
Document: Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address (1861)
Moves Toward Emancipation
Document: John S. Rock: African American Hopes for Emancipation (1862)
Abraham Lincoln: Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Sectional Dissatisfaction
Document: Clement A. Vallandigham: A Plea to Stop the War (1863)
Presidential Election of 1864
Chapter 3: The Civil War, 1860–65
Fighting the War
Bloody Battles and Heavy Casualties
Document: Patriotic Songs of the North and South (1861)
Battle of Gettysburg
Document: Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
Document: Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Appomattox
Document: George E. Pickett: The Night Before Appomattox (1865)
Foreign Affairs
Document: Walt Whitman: “Come Up from the Fields Father” (1865)
Document: Frank Wilkeson: How Americans Die in Battle (1864)
Aftermath
Chapter 4: Reconstruction
Reconstruction Under Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln’s Plan
The Radicals’ Plan
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Reconstruction Under Andrew Johnson
Presidential Reconstruction
Document: Civil Rights Act (1866)
Document: Andrew Johnson: Against the Radical Republicans (1866)
Document: Fourteenth Amendment (1866)
Radical Reconstruction
Southern Republicans
Document: Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction (1866)
Forty Acres and a Mule
Reconstruction Under Ulysses S. Grant
Document: Federal Grand Jury Report on the Ku Klux Klan (1871)
Southern “Home Rule”
Chapter 5: The New South
The Era of Conservative Domination
Jim Crow Legislation
Document: Frederick Douglass: The Colour Line in America (1883)
Document: Booker T. Washington: The Road to African American Progress (1895)
Booker T. Washington and the Atlanta Compromise
Conclusion
Appendix: Primary Source Documents
Stephen A. Douglas: Defense of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1854)
Charles Sumner: The Crime Against Kansas (1856)
Roger Taney: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Abraham Lincoln: “A House Divided” (1858)
Henry David Thoreau: A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
Henry Timrod: Ethnogenesis (1861)
Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address (1861)
John S. Rock: African American Hopes for Emancipation (1862)
Abraham Lincoln: Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Clement L. Vallandigham: A Plea to Stop the War (1863)
Patriotic Songs of North and South
Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (1865)
George E. Pickett: The Night Before Appomattox (1865)
Walt Whitman: Come Up from the Fields Father (1865)
Frank Wilkeson: How Americans Die in Battle (1864)
Civil Rights Act (1866)
Andrew Johnson: Against the Radical Republicans (1866)
Document: Fourteenth Amendment (1866)
Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction (1866)
Federal Grand Jury Report on the Ku Klux Klan (1871)
Frederick Douglass: The Colour Line in America (1883)
Booker T. Washington: The Road to African American Progress (1895)
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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