Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-388) and index.
John Tyler's hobby: territorial expansion and Jacksonian politics -- Milton's devil: slavery restriction and the revolutionary heritage, 1820-1846 -- Washington redux: the whig party and the politics of slavery, 1846-1848 -- Tower of Babel: social ideology and the crisis of territorial organization, 1849-1850 -- Of Pegasus and Bellerophon: popular sovereignty, Stephen A. Douglas, and the origins of the Kansas-Nebraska Act -- A house dividing: the conspiracy thesis joined and defined -- To the egress: humbug and the disruption of the democracy -- The eclipse of manifest destiny and the disruption of the second party system.
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Slavery and the American West.
0807823198
Sectionalism (United States)
Slavery-- United States-- Extension to the territories.
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
HISTORY.
Sectionalism (United States)
Slavernij.
Slavery-- Extension to the territories.
Territorial expansion.
War-- Causes.
United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Causes.