@article{351574,
      recid = {351574},
      author = {Green, Michael S.},
      title = {Politics and America in crisis the coming of the Civil War  / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Praeger,},
      address = {Santa Barbara, Calif. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxii, 190 p.)},
      year = {2010},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {This book unravels the political developments that made  the Civil War unavoidable.  From the end of the Mexican  American War to the first shots at Fort Sumter, the United  States slowly and inexorably moved toward civil conflict. A  series of escalating showdowns over slavery in the voting  booth, the courtroom, and in the public mind made war  between two culturally incompatible halves of the nation  inevitable.  This book examines the developments between  1846 and 1861 that pushed the nation to war to see what  they reveal about the North, the South, the people leading  them, and the issues separating them.  As shown here, in  the decade and a half before the actual outbreak of the  war, the mostly southern Democratic Party's fortunes veered  from a presidential election victory in 1852 to the  shocking loss of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, an event that  marked the coming of age of the young antislavery  Republican Party. In examining that sharp reversal, this  work covers a wide range of key events, including efforts  to ban slavery in territories won in the Mexican American  War, the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown's raids.  It  looks at the pivotal political events that played a role in  the country's move toward the Civil War; Incorporates the  latest scholarship about the war's causes; Spotlights  important leaders of the time, including Abraham Lincoln,  who was a much greater presence on the issue of slavery in  the years before his election than most people realize.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351574},
}