Articles related to "Popular Sovereignty"

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was intended to be a compromise but instead outraged the North, gave America the Republican Party, "Bleeding Kansas," and led to civil war.

While the Compromise of 1850 aimed to settle sectional differences, it ultimately made them worse and paved the way toward civil war.

Concessions to the South enabled passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act but resulted in outrage that led to political realignments and the formation of the Republican Party.

The Mexican War ends. The issue of Free Soil or Slave State in new territories arises. California Gold and The Wilmot Proviso.

Lincoln's Melancholy is a very original book, offering a psychological biography on Abraham Lincoln and an explanation of his greatness.

The 1848 national election may have laid the groundwork for a decade of growing division between the North and the South through the issue of the extension of slavery.

This book by Roy Morris, Jr. is a unique take on the political career of Lincoln, which was greatly influenced by Douglas.

Many politicians and others have used the phrase 'the will of the people' but few really understand its deeper meaning. Here is an exploration of this political phrase.

The Wilmot Proviso represented a key step toward the debate over Congressional prerogatives regarding the extension of slavery into lands acquired from Mexico in 1848.

Thomas Jefferson's efforts owed much to other writings of the colonial period yet his precise and beautiful prose resulted in a strong argument for American independence.

After his one term in Congress ended in 1848, Abraham Lincoln became bored with politics. Several years later, controversial legislation would reignite his passion.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a fundamental document that helped establish basic human rights and provided the framework of the Revolution.

Dred Scott's residency in Illinois and Wisconsin should have made him a freedman but the US Supreme Court disagreed, declaring the 1820 Compromise unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court's decisions in Scott and Plessy cases established a legal framework for the social and economic subjugation of blacks in the 20th century.

What do these two seemingly unrelated transportation pipelines have in common?

Abolitionist John Brown, in 1856, led the mob that massacred five suspected pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.

Historian Lewis E. Lehrman reveals the speech that defined Lincoln's convictions about slavery in his opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act sponsored by Stephen Douglas.

Many factors enabled a fledgling Republican Party to capture the White House in 1860 but a chief reason may have been the division of the Democrats into three parties.

As overland travelers visited Utah in the 1850s and 1860s, their reports of the Mormon people became steadily more negative.

Hundreds of books have been written on the Civil War, but do Americans really understand why the South lost the war?