Themes of the American Civil War


Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic Democratic Politics in Ohio



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Themes of the American Civil War The War Between the States by Susan-Mary Grant (z-lib.org)
Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793–1821
(Columbus, OH, 1998).
20.
Maldwyn A. Jones, American Immigration (Chicago, IL, 1960), pp. 75–9; Donald G. Mathews,
“The Second Great Awakening as an Organizing Process, 1780–1830,” American Quarterly 21
(1969), pp. Robert A. East, Economic Development and New England Federalism, 1803–1814,” New
England Quarterly 10 (1937), pp. 430–46. See also Curtis P. Nettels, The Emergence of a
National Economy, 1775–1815 (New York, Frederick Marks, Independence on Trial Foreign Affairs and the Making of the Constitution
(Wilmington, DEA. E. Campbell, An excess of Isolation Isolation and the American
Civil War Journal of Southern History 29 (1963), pp. This view comports with that of older historians, for example Merle Curti, The Roots of
American Loyalty (New York, 1946), and some experts on nationalism see Anthony D. Smith,
“State-making and Nation-building,” in John A. Hall, ed, States in History (Oxford, pp. 228–63, esp. pp. 241, 245, Stanley M. Elkins and Eric L. McKitrick, The Age of Federalism, 1789–1801 (New York and
Oxford, 1993); Slaughter, Whiskey Rebellion, pp. 190–221; Dall W. Forsythe, Taxation and
Political Change in the New Nation, 1781–1833 (New York, 1977), pp. Leonard W. Levy, Jefferson and Civil Liberties The Darker Side (Cambridge, MA, 1963), pp. 114–20, Fred Somkin, Unquiet Eagle Memory and Desire in the Idea of American Freedom, 1815–1860
(Ithaca, NY, 1967); Paul C. Nagel, One Nation Indivisible The Union in American Thought,
1776–1861 (New York and Oxford, 1964) and This Sacred Trust American Nationality,
1798–1898 (New York and Oxford, 1971). The word nation had been used earlier, notably in the 1790s.
27.
George Dangerfield, The Era of Good Feelings (New York, 1952); Daniel Walker Howe, What
Hath God Wrought The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 (New York, 2007), pp. Ibid Charles S. Sydnor, Development of Southern Sectionalism, 1819–1848 (Baton Rouge, LA William W. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War The Nullification Movement in
South Carolina, 1816–1836 (New York, 1966); Norman K. Risjord, The Old Republicans:
Southern Conservatism in the Age of Jefferson (New York, 1965). President Jackson’s weakening of the mechanisms of central authority is emphasized in Forrest McDonald, States’ Rights and
the Union Imperium in Imperio, 1776–1876 (Lawrence, KS, 2000), pp. 97–120.
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Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835, 1840), ed. Phillips Bradley (New York) I, p. 432. Though Tocqueville was pessimistic about the future of the Union, he acknowledged its strengths and recognized that the Americans still constitute a single people. . . united by . . . common opinions Ibid, pp. 398–433, quotation pp. McCormick, The Jacksonian Strategy esp. pp. 9–12; Kenneth M. Stampp, The Concept of a Perpetual Union in Stampp, The Imperiled Union Essays on the Background of the Civil
War (Oxford, 1980), pp. 3–36. The idea that the Union was indissoluble had been implicit long before 1832, as, for example, in the outlook of Northern Democratic Republicans during the Missouri crisis see Major L. Wilson, Space, Time, and Freedom The Quest for Nationality
and the Irrepressible Conflict, 1815–1861 (Westport, CT, 1974), pp. 46–7. For the continuing constitutional strength of the Union, see Harold M. Hyman and William W. Wiecek, Equal
Justice under the Law Constitutional Development, 1835–1875 (New York, 1982), pp. John Murrin, The Great Inversion, or Court versus Country a Comparison of the Revolution
Settlements in England, 1688–1721, and America, 1776–1816,” in JG. A. Pocock, ed, Three

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