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- catalog abstract "It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Morman governor to replace Brigham Young. The Supreme Court outraged northernRepublicans and abolitionists with the Dred Scott decision ("a breathtaking example of judicial activism"). etc.".
- catalog contributor b2880471.
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1857-1861.".
- catalog created "1990.".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "1990.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1990.".
- catalog description "A new year and a fresh start -- Politics and the social milieu -- James Buchanan : President-elect -- The President, the Chief Justice, and a slave named Scott -- The heart of the matter : slavery and sectionalism -- Popular sovereignty, Kansas style -- Dog days -- Flush times and an autumn panic -- Northern politics : the parties in equipoise -- Politics as farce : the Lecompton Constitution -- Politics as tragedy : Buchanan's decision -- 1858 : the fruits of Lecompton.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-376)".
- catalog description "It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Morman governor to replace Brigham Young. The Supreme Court outraged northernRepublicans and abolitionists with the Dred Scott decision ("a breathtaking example of judicial activism"). etc.".
- catalog extent "ix, 388 p., [10] of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "America in 1857.".
- catalog identifier "0195039025 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog identifier "0195074815 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "America in 1857.".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "1990.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "America in 1857.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1857-1861.".
- catalog subject "973.6/8 20".
- catalog subject "E436 .S78 1990".
- catalog tableOfContents "A new year and a fresh start -- Politics and the social milieu -- James Buchanan : President-elect -- The President, the Chief Justice, and a slave named Scott -- The heart of the matter : slavery and sectionalism -- Popular sovereignty, Kansas style -- Dog days -- Flush times and an autumn panic -- Northern politics : the parties in equipoise -- Politics as farce : the Lecompton Constitution -- Politics as tragedy : Buchanan's decision -- 1858 : the fruits of Lecompton.".
- catalog title "America in 1857 : a nation on the brink / Kenneth M. Stampp.".
- catalog type "text".