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100	1		_aHyslop, Stephen G. _q(Stephen Garrison), _d1950- _eauthor. _9116616
245	1	0	_aBuilding a house divided : _bslavery, westward expansion, and the roots of the Civil War / _cStephen G. Hyslop.
264		1	_aNorman : _bUniversity of Oklahoma Press, _c[2023]
300			_aviii, 319 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : Lincoln's architecture and the fault in the nation's foundation -- Jefferson's abandoned stand against slavery -- A contested purchase -- Lewis and Clark, William Henry Harrison, and the northwestern frontier -- Jackson's southern strategy -- Missouri compromised -- Stephen Austin's invasive Texas colony -- Houston, Jackson, and the southwestern frontier -- Benton, Frémont, and the westward course of American empire -- Tyler, Calhoun, and the "reannexation" of Texas -- Mr. Polk's war and manifest destiny -- Wilmot's proviso and the Free Soil movement -- Douglas's southern exposure and popular sovereignty -- Conceiving "bleeding Kansas" -- Deconstructing the democracy.
520			_a"Explores how an incipient rift between the states over slavery at the United States' founding lengthened and deepened, risking civil war, as the nation advanced westward" -- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"By the time Abraham Lincoln asserted in 1858 that the nation could not "endure permanently half slave and half free," the rift that would split the country in civil war was well defined. The origins and evolution of the coming conflict between North and South can in fact be traced back to the early years of the American Republic, as Stephen G. Hyslop demonstrates in Building a House Divided, an exploration of how the incipient fissure between the Union's initial slave states and free states-or those where slaves were gradually being emancipated-lengthened and deepened as the nation advanced westward. Hyslop focuses on four prominent slaveholding expansionists who were intent on preserving the Union but nonetheless helped build what Lincoln called a house divided: Presidents Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and James K. Polk and Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, who managed a plantation in Mississippi bequeathed by his father-in-law. Hyslop examines what these men did, collectively and individually, to further what Jefferson called an "empire of liberty," though it kept millions of Black people in bondage. Along with these major figures, in all their conflicts and contradictions, he considers other American expansionists who engaged in and helped extend slavery-among them William Clark, Stephen Austin, and President John Tyler-as well as examples of principled opposition to the extension of slavery by northerners such as John Quincy Adams and southerners like Henry Clay and Thomas Hart Benton, who held slaves but placed preserving the Union above extending slavery across the continent. The long view of the path to the Civil War, as charted through the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras in this book, reveals the critical fault in the nation's foundation, exacerbated by slaveholding expansionists like Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, and Douglas, until the house they built upon it could no longer stand for two opposite ideas at once" -- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aSlavery _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century. _9221386
651		0	_aUnited States _xTerritorial expansion. _948594
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1783-1865. _950221
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yCivil War, 1861-1865 _xCauses. _936021
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