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America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink
It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Mormon governor to replace Brigham Young. The Supreme Court outraged northern Republicans ...more
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April 30th 1992
by Oxford University Press, USA
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By reading this book, I have determined that ‘state rights’ is typically a euphemism for a minority population’s desire to do something the majority of our union believe heinous. In this case, it was slavery. Yet throughout history, there have been many other examples. The issues of the past are often fought with the same vigor as we see today. Make no mistake; today’s political discourse is not unusually. This book delves into a single year in American history, and shows how the political...more
So much happened in this year: the Dred Scott Case, the Kansas territory's election fraud, a recession caused by a bank credit crisis, and partisan maneuvering between the Democrats and Republicans. The country was extremely polarized. Sound familiar? However, at times the author kept bringing up more and more evidence to back up a point he was asserting that he could have stopped pages ago. It got tiresome.
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