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9780393953701

The Political Crisis of the 1850s

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393953701

  • ISBN10:

    039395370X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1983-09-17
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

Holt sees the Civil War as representing a breakdown in America's democratic political process, more specifically the Second Party System of Whigs and Democrats. He demonstrates this system's success, beginning in the 1820s and 1830s, in confining sectional disputes safely within the political arena. With the breakdown of vital two-party competition in the 1850s, sectional issues increasingly took on ideological dimension, causing, Americans North and South to see in them dangerous threats to cherished republican institutions. No longer manageable within the arena of politics, sectional differences had to be resolved with in the arena of battle.The Political Crisis of the 1850s offers a clearly written account of politics (state and federal), sectionalism, race, and slavery from the 1820s through to the Civil War, brilliantly combining the behavioral and ideological approaches to political history.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
xv(2)
Quotations xvii
1. Party Dynamics and the Coming of the Civil War
1(16)
2. The Second Party System in Operation
17(22)
3. Slavery Extension and the Second Party System, 1843-1848
39(28)
4. Dynamics of the Party System and the Compromise of 1850
67(34)
5. The Second Party System Undermined, 1849-1853
101(38)
6. Realignment, Reorganization, and Reform, 1854-1856
139(44)
7. Slavery, Republicanism, and the Triumph of the Republican Party
183(36)
8. Politics, Slavery, and Southern Secession
219(42)
Selected Bibliography 261(20)
Footnotes 281(38)
Index 319

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