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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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