Dividing the union : Jesse Burgess Thomas and the making of the Missouri Compromise /
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2016]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- From Maryland to Kentucky: first steps toward Egypt
- The Northwest Territory: organizing an expanding nation
- In the shadow of slavery
- The next slippery rung on the political ladder
- Into the fray in Illinois
- Gathering forces
- The political divide
- Illinois statehood
- First months in the U.S. Senate
- The Missouri Compromise: maneuvering for position
- The Missouri Compromise: the final struggle
- The aftermath
- The perspective of Ohio
- A rest to the people of God.