1850-1877: Government and Politics
1850-1877: Chapter Seven: Government and Politics
by THOMAS J. BROWN
CONTENTS
CHRONOLOGY 180
OVERVIEW 188
TOPICS IN THE NEWS
The Georgia Platform, 1850 193
Disintegration of the Second Party System 194
Anxieties of Knew Nothings 195
Forging a Republican Majority 196
Anxieties of Republicans 198
A House Dividing 200
Birth of a Nation 202
Politics in the Wartime North 203
A New Birth of Freedom 203
Politics in the Wartime South 206
The Cornerstone of the Confederacy 208
Reconstruction 209
Forty Acres and a Mule 209
Toward an Industrial Polity 212
The Indian Wars 214
HEADLINE MAKERS
Dorothea Dix 216
Wendell Phillips 217
Sitting Bull 219
Zebulon Vance 221
PUBLICATIONS 224
Sidebars and tables are listed in italics.
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