Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 1324
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Author: United States. Congress
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 1324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House
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Published: 1826
Total Pages: 670
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Indiana. General Assembly. House of Representatives
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Published: 1818
Total Pages: 270
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Published: 1829
Total Pages: 588
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Indiana. General Assembly. House of Representatives
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 2454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hugh Davis
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0801463653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians have focused almost entirely on the attempt by southern African Americans to attain equal rights during Reconstruction. However, the northern states also witnessed a significant period of struggle during these years. Northern blacks vigorously protested laws establishing inequality in education, public accommodations, and political life and challenged the Republican Party to live up to its stated ideals. In "We Will Be Satisfied With Nothing Less", Hugh Davis concentrates on the two issues that African Americans in the North considered most essential: black male suffrage rights and equal access to the public schools. Davis connects the local and the national; he joins the specifics of campaigns in places such as Cincinnati, Detroit, and San Francisco with the work of the National Equal Rights League and its successor, the National Executive Committee of Colored Persons. The narrative moves forward from their launching of the equal rights movement in 1864 to the "end" of Reconstruction in the North two decades later. The struggle to gain male suffrage rights was the centerpiece of the movement's agenda in the 1860s, while the school issue remained a major objective throughout the period. Following the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, northern blacks devoted considerable attention to assessing their place within the Republican Party and determining how they could most effectively employ the franchise to protect the rights of all citizens.
Author: Elliott Schimmel
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company
Published: 2020-08-14
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1620236613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Hayden English of Indiana, congressman from 1853–1861, ended his official political career one and a half months before the attack on Fort Sumter. Though his name may not be as well known as other antebellum historical figures, he actively and influentially participated in all the major political events of the great drama that culminated in the most devastating war in American history. While this book is specifically a close analysis of one antebellum politician, it also acts as a comprehensive study by which one may examine not only the perspective and struggles of a single congressman, but also the contextual political environment that surrounded America’s descent into the great tragedy of the Civil War.
Author: Peverill Squire
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2021-02-23
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0472128477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900 provides a comprehensive analysis of the role constituent instructions played in American politics for more than a hundred years after its founding. Constituent instructions were more widely issued than previously thought, and members of state legislatures and Congress were more likely to obey them than political scientists and historians have assumed. Peverill Squire expands our understanding of constituent instructions beyond a handful of high-profile cases, through analyses of two unique data sets: one examining more than 5,000 actionable communications (instructions and requests) sent to state legislators by constituents through town meetings, mass meetings, and local representative bodies; the other examines more than 6,600 actionable communications directed by state legislatures to their state’s congressional delegations. He draws the data, examples, and quotes almost entirely from original sources, including government documents such as legislative journals, session laws, town and county records, and newspaper stories, as well as diaries, memoirs, and other contemporary sources. Squire also includes instructions to and from Confederate state legislatures in both data sets. In every respect, the Confederate state legislatures mirrored the legislatures that preceded and followed them.
Author: R. J. M. Blackett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-01-25
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 1108314104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugitive slaves had on the politics of the critical decade leading up to the Civil War. Through the close reading of diverse sources ranging from government documents to personal accounts, Richard J. M. Blackett traces the decisions of slaves to escape, the actions of those who assisted them, the many ways black communities responded to the capture of fugitive slaves, and how local laws either buttressed or undermined enforcement of the federal law. Every effort to enforce the law in northern communities produced levels of subversion that generated national debate so much so that, on the eve of secession, many in the South, looking back on the decade, could argue that the law had been effectively subverted by those individuals and states who assisted fleeing slaves.