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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Sectionalism"”.
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Sectionalism and the Representation Debate, 1787-1792
… analysis was used to determine the degree of sectionalism surrounding the representation debate in the Second Congress.</p> <p>The conclusion of my research is that North-South sectionalism played a significant role in the apportionment debate. The question of slavery's place in the …
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A Briny Crossroads Salt, Slavery, and Sectionalism in The Kanawha Salines
The Kanawha Salines are a place whose history challenges conventional narratives and popular assumptions about slavery and freedom in the antebellum South. The paradoxical nature of slavery in this locale can be seen in the identity of the first documented people forced to labor in the salt works. …
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“THE GREAT QUESTION”: SLAVERY, SECTIONALISM, AND THE U.S. NAVAL OFFICER CORPS, 1820-1861
… officers’ beliefs about race and slavery shaped sectionalism between the North and South in the antebellum era. As agents of the federal government operating far from the capital, naval officers had significant influence on the implementation of American foreign policy. With reputations as …
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“The Union of the South is the Safety of the South”: Conspiracy Theories, Sectionalism and the Secession Crisis in Virginia
This thesis examines the role of conspiracy theories in Virginia’s debates over secession in the critical months prior to the Civil War. As the largest of the fifteen slave states and home to many of the nation’s founders, Virginia’s decision on secession had far-reaching implications. Elected by …
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A study of the proposals to divide the state of California from 1860 to 1952
… the city of Santa Barbara. So pronounced is this sectionalism that Carey McWilliams said of it, "While other states have an east-west or a north-south division, in no state in the Union is the schism as sharp as in California."<sup>2</sup> Even more forceful is the comment by John Gunther, …
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Captive Audiences: Sound and the Senses in Civil War Prisons
… in broad historical trends such as antebellum sectionalism. This thesis uses a sensory perspective to explore the relationship between sound and prison experience. Prison officials gave explicit meaning to certain sounds, but prisoners inferred their own meaning and the difference characterized …
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The causes of the Civil War: a newspaper analysis
… to Lincoln's election in 1860, a period in which sectionalism and disunion increasingly appeared on newspaper pages and the lines of disagreement between the North and the South hardened. The primary sources used in this study were a diverse sampling of articles from newspapers around the country …
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"Is This Park to Memorialize Confederate Valor and History or Not?": Sectionalist Civil War Memory in the History of Manassas National Battlefield Park, 1861-2011
… to Confederate history and memory shows that the sectionalism of Civil War memory still exists in some facets of Civil War interpretation.
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William T. Brantly (1787-1845): A Southern unionist and the breakup of the Triennial Convention
… transitional period (1826-1835), when sectionalism risked disunity, but compromise and silence nullified political strife and British interference. Chapters 12 and 13 examine the sectional and sectarian causes behind the visible disunity of the great Bible Convention of 1837. Brantly's …
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A struggle against fate: the opponents of manifest destiny and the collapse of the continental dream, 1846-1871
… destiny is usually credited to the rise of sectionalism in the middle of the 1850s, the following study demonstrates that many Americans in the nineteenth-century simply did not see the need to expand the national borders. Their opposition to expansion played a pivotal role in bringing down …
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"The Indignation of Freedom-Loving People": Emotion, Politics, and the Brooks-Sumner Affair
… cannot alone explain the growth of northern sectionalism or the rise of the Republicans. But by lending moral nobility to northern outrage, indignation legitimized political activity that had previously seemed radical or disreputable. Moreover, thanks to the institution of the indignation …
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Voting with Their Feet: Union Desertion in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865
… Troops from the Confederate Army: A Study in Sectionalism in 1932, and Mark A. Weitz's A Higher Duty: Desertion among Georgia Troops during the Civil War in 2000. These three texts scrutinize the "traditional explanations" for desertion, including battle fatigue, poor camp conditions, and …
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Scale and the Interpretation of Voting Patterns in Virginia, 2003-2006
… This observation agrees with the concept of sectionalism, which asserts that location and culture are key influences on voting behavior. However, the data also suggest that class differences are a major source of electoral cleavage, as people from different social and economic backgrounds …
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Pathways to Power: Physicians In Charleston, South Carolina, 1790-1860
… regional medical separatism that dovetailed with sectionalism so prevalent in the 1850s.</p> <p>As individuals with common goals coalesce into groups trying to take power, they seek to create structures that support their efforts. Institutions are created to allow space for groups of people to …