A House Divided:
Prelude to the Civil War

John C. Calhoun
The Great Nullificator
Reading Assignment:
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Henretta: Chapter Thirteen |
Primary Sources
Speeches
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James Henry Hammond on Admission of Kansas under the LeCompton Convention - "Cotton is King" | |
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Frederick Douglass - What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? | |
Miscellaneous Documents from Primary Sources:
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William Lloyd Garrison - Inaugural Editorial of The Liberator | |
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Alexis de Tocqueville - "Of Individualism in Democratic Countries" | |
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Alexis de Tocqueville - "Why the Americans are so Restless." | |