The Tallmadge Amendment passed the House on a sectional vote but was defeated in the Senate . When neither chamber would yield , slavery's critics and defenders plunged into an ill - tempered debate that revealed a deep sectional ...
A history of the United States with an emphasis on public policy. Includes maps, photos, charts, and suggestions for further reading.
A peer-reviewed open U.S. History Textbook released under a CC BY SA 3.0 Unported License.
A history of the United States to 1877
These population figures remain in dispute; see Utley, Lone Star Justice, 188–89; Webb, Texas Rangers, 345. There is also some disagreement on the distance and travel time: Webb puts it at 600 miles requiring “thirty or more days” to ...
The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived ...
American History volume 2 gives a wide overview of America’s history from the end of the Civil War era, to the political and cultural struggles of contemporary times.
Soon a slave from an adjoining farm owned by John Miller approached McCutchen demanding guns . The black man moved toward the gun rack , at which point McCutchen called to his slaves for help . The slaves failed to respond ...
Learning History
... and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, another Unitarian minister for whom abolitionism became the core of his religion. Higginson had led the group that had tried to liberate escaped slave Anthony Burns from Boston's federal courthouse in ...
Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history...