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Supreme Court Cases of the US

Civil War,  page(s): 332-339. word count: 5627.

Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States

Paul Finkelman . Ed. David S. Tanenhaus .  Vol. 1.  Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008. 

The American Civil War began in April 1861, but the Court's relationship to the war and secession preceded that date. Three decisions in the 1850s—Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857), Ableman v. Booth, 62 U.S. 506.. 

 

 

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American History Through Literature 1820-1870

Ed. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer. Vol. 1. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. p232-243. COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale, COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale, Cengage LearningJohn Stauffer

 

 

Urbanization,  page(s): 1214-1219. word count: 3246.

American History Through Literature 1820-1870
Dana Brand. Ed. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer .  Vol. 3.  Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 

Perhaps no society in the history of the world has ever urbanized as rapidly as the United States did in the nineteenth century. In 1820 New York was a small port city on the margins of European culture. Although it was...

  • Gale Library of Daily Life, 2008
  • Gale Library of Daily Life
    Illuminates daily life in slave society in America from colonial times to the
    end of the Civil War. Provides information on the business and regulation
    of slavery, the plantation way of life, work, family and community, culture
    and leisure, health and medicine, religion, resistance and rebellion, and
    slavery and freedom in the North.
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Great Events from History: The Nineteenth Century, Salem Press