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The era of the Civil War, 1848-1870

Print Book, English, ©1987
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, ©1987
History
xviii, 499 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
9780252013393, 0252013395
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The passing of the frontier
The coming of the railroads
Agitation and compromise, 1848-1852
Prairie farming and banking
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The origin of the Republican party
The Lincoln-Douglas debates
The election of 1860
The growing pains of society
Church and school, 1850-1860
The appeal to arms
Recruiting ground and battlefield
The new abolitionists and the copperheads
The reelection of Lincoln
Population in wartime
The Industrial Revolution, 1860-1870
Agriculture and the war
Reconstruction and the military politician
The spoils and the spoilers, 1867-1870
Religion, morality, and education, 1860-1870
Play and the press
"Published for the Illinois Sesquicentennial Commission and the Illinois State Historical Society."--Page ii
Reprint. Originally published: Springfield : Illinois Centennial Commission, 1919. (The Centennial history of Illinois ; v. 3)