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BLOOD AND IRON Civil War, Emancipation, and a Nation Remade: AMERICAN CHRONICLES Volume IV of X 1851-1875

BLOOD AND IRON Civil War, Emancipation, and a Nation Remade: AMERICAN CHRONICLES Volume IV of X 1851-1875

Geissler, Robert

Paperback

Series: American Chronicles, Book 4

19th Century United States HistoryCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN13: 9798183554922
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 21 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Every compromise had bought time. By 1861, the time had run out.

For seven decades, the United States had managed the question of slavery's future through negotiation - the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, each one buying less time than the last. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act tore up that bargain entirely, and Americans started shooting each other over it years before the larger war began. In 1857, the Supreme Court tried to settle the question by judicial fiat and instead destroyed what remained of the political middle ground. By 1861, eleven states had left the union rather than accept a president whose party they believed threatened their entire way of life - and they said so, in writing, without euphemism.

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