The Civil War : 1850-1895

Ojeda, Auriana, 1977- (Added Author).

Summary: Looks at important writings and moments in American history during the build-up to the Civil War and the war itself, the era of reconstruction, and the Indian Wars that followed.

Item details

ISBN: 073771140X
ISBN: 9780737711400
ISBN: 0737711396
ISBN: 9780737711394
Physical Description: print
301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: San Diego, Calif. : Thomson/Gale, ©2003.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-289) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Chapter 1. Tension Mounts Between the North and South -- The Compromise of 1850 / Robert H. Jones -- The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 / Stanley Feldstein -- Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Proslavery Sentiment / William Sumner Jenkins -- The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 / J.G. Randall, David Donald -- The Dred Scott Case / Don E. Fehrenbacher -- Chapter 2. The Civil War -- Fort Sumter / James Ford Rhodes -- General Robert E. Lee / Jefferson Davis -- The Battle of Bull Run / R. Ernest Dupuy, Trevor N. Dupuy -- The Battle at Antietam Creek / EyeWitness -- The Battle of Gettysburg / Frank Aretas Haskell -- The Path to Emancipation / Harry Hansen -- Surrender at Appomattox / Robert Leckie -- Chapter 3. The Reconstruction Era -- President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination / Gideon Welles -- The Freedmen's Bureau / John William De Forest -- The Black Codes / Benjamin Grubb Humphreys -- The Fourteenth Amendment / Avery Craven -- The Ku Klux Klan / Joseph H. Rainey -- Andrew Johnson's Impeachment Trial / Douglas O. Linder -- The Compromise of 1877 / Rowland Connor -- Chapter 4. The United States and the Native Americans Battle over Land Rights -- The Reservation Era / Arrell Morgan Gibson -- Red Cloud and the Fort Laramie Treaty / Frank Waters -- The Battle at Little Bighorn / Iron Hawk -- The Surrender of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce / Chief Joseph -- The Surrender of Geronimo and the Apache / John Edward Weems -- The Dawes Act / Francis Paul Prucha -- The Battle at Wounded Knee / John Tebbel, Keith Jennison -- Chapter 5. The Gilded Age -- The Industrial Revolution / John E. Findling, Frank W. Thackeray -- Capitalism and Social Darwinism / Andrew Carnegie -- The Growth of the Railroads / George Rogers Taylor, Irene D. Neu -- Immigration / Mark Wahlgren Summers -- The Chinese Exclusion Act / Anonymous -- The Knights of Labor / Terence V. Powderly -- Women's Suffrage / Frances Power Cobbe -- The Sherman Antitrust Act / John A. Garraty.