Mexican War & Slavery: 1846 - 1860: Volume 7 - Brossura

Webster, Daniel; Clay, Henry; Lincoln, Abraham; Benton, Thomas; Lee, Robert E; Douglas, Stephen; Polk, James

9781936472079: Mexican War & Slavery: 1846 - 1860: Volume 7

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1936472074 ISBN 13: 9781936472079

Casa editrice: PowerThink Publishing, LLC, 2014

It was 1846 and time for America to expand its reach to the Pacific shores as it flexed its muscle in a show of protecting its migrating citizens. One thing stood in the way; Mexico. “Manifest Destiny” would play out in the two-year struggle. Neighbors would fight to create a new border, north from south, along the Rio Grande, and west through untamed territories to become known as New Mexico and Arizona, finally reaching the coast of California. This was a time of pioneers leaving the confines of Kansas and Missouri to explore the Oregon and California trails. Settlers, treasure seekers, and the greatest mass religious exodus in American history, the Mormons; all would cross untamed lands filled with peril, to settle in territory which would either stay with Mexico or become part of the United States. It was a time when the Golden Age of the gentleman and ladies of southern plantations was soon to slip into nothing more than a memory, as talk of southern state secession inflamed passions. Strangely, the 1846-1848 war with Mexico would also become the factory giving junior military officers the experience in battle to produce the Generals opposing one another in the coming Civil War. The Underground Railroad of abolitionists, questions of state’s rights, along with American empire building, all mixed together creating tensions which would only end with the Civil War of 1861-1865. Included Works: � War Clouds Over Oregon by Benton � Acquisition of California, Fremont's Successful Invasion by Benton � American Alcalde at Monterey by Colton � Reasons for the War with Mexico by Polk � Northwest Fur Trade by Captain Sturgis � Wilmot Defends His Proviso by Wilmot � A Contemporary Senatorial Opponent of the War by Corwin � Capture of Chapultepec and Mexico City by Scott � Grant in Mexico by Grant � Peter Wilson on the Empire State by Wilson � Discovery of Gold in California by Colton � Treaty with Mexico, 1848 � Discovery of Gold in California by Hittell � Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention by Official report printed by Dick � Clay Compromise by Clay � Clay Compromise by Schurz � Webster's Seventh of March Speech by Blaine � Jenny Lind's Arrival and First Concert in New York � Threat of Civil War by Daniel Webster � Underground Railroad by Coffin � Fugitive Slave Act � Clay Compromise by Daniel Webster � South and the Public Domain by Stephens � Clay Compromise Measures by Calhoun � Bryants' Welcome to Kossuth by Bryant � Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech by Gage � Opening of the Crystal Palace in New York � Eulogy of Webster by Choate � Vicissitudes of A Forty-Niner by Delano � First Treaty with Japan by Perry � Defense of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill by Douglas � Civil War in Kansas by Eggleston � Rise of the Republican Party by Julian � Commodore Perry Negotiates a Treaty with Japan � Civil War in Kansas by Gladstone � Crime Against Kansas by Sumner � Preston Brooks in Defense of His Attack on Sumner by Brooks � Dred Scott Decision, 1857 by Taney � First Railroad to the Mississippi by Smith � First Atlantic Cable Laid, But is a Failure by Field � Sewards' "Irrepressible Conflict Speech", 1858 by Seward � Lincoln on the First Debate with Douglas, 1858 by Lincoln � Stephen Douglas in the First Debate with Lincoln, 1858 by Douglas � Death and Burial of Washington Irving by Stedman � John Brown at Harper's Ferry by Greeley � Capture of John Brown by Lee � Brown's Trial and Execution by Greeley � John Brown's Last Speech and Letters by Brown � John Brown's Speech to the Court at His Trial by Brown � Death of John Brown by Garrison � Arrival of the Great Eastern in New York Harbor � Visit of the Prince of Wales King Edward VII � Lincoln's "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand" Speech, 1860 by Lincoln � How Lincoln Was Nominated by Halstead � Threats of Secession by Rhett � Lincoln Making His Cabinet by Weed � Yancy's Speech of Protest in the Charleston Convention by Yancy

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