William L. Richter's The A to Z of the Old South (The A to Z Guide Series) PDF

By William L. Richter

Being significantly varied from different areas of the rustic, such a lot significantly concerning its fervent perform of slavery, the land south of the Mason-Dixon line, due to slavery, loved an excellent prominence in politics, and after the discovery of the cotton gin, a excessive measure of prosperity. besides the fact that, additionally due to slavery, it was once alienated from the remainder of the kingdom, tried to secede from the union, and was once compelled again in just after it misplaced the Civil conflict. a number of cross-referenced entries on admired members, together with Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln, in addition to others on rules of the time that experience on the grounds that slipped into oblivion are all coated during this e-book. fiscal, social and spiritual backgrounds hint the doubtless inevitable route to secession, struggle, and defeat. This reference additionally comprises an introductory essay, a chronology, and a bibliography of the epoch.

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