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By William L. Richter

Being significantly various from different areas of the rustic, such a lot significantly relating to its fervent perform of slavery, the land south of the Mason-Dixon line, as a result of slavery, loved a good prominence in politics, and after the discovery of the cotton gin, a excessive measure of prosperity. although, additionally due to slavery, it was once alienated from the remainder of the country, tried to secede from the union, and used to be pressured again in just after it misplaced the Civil warfare. quite a few cross-referenced entries on favourite members, together with Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln, in addition to others on guidelines of the time that experience in view that slipped into oblivion are all lined during this booklet. financial, social and spiritual backgrounds hint the likely inevitable route to secession, conflict, and defeat. This reference additionally contains an introductory essay, a chronology, and a bibliography of the epoch.

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