The Price of UnionHoughton Mifflin, 1950 - 750 pages Explores the origins and development of American political institutions. Contains a copy of the constitution, notes, bibliography, and index. |
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Page 289
... Whig Party against the " leveling " tendencies of the Jacksonians and against anybody anywhere who raised the slave question . New England was so closely tied to the planters that her Whigs came to be known as " Cotton Whigs . " Her ...
... Whig Party against the " leveling " tendencies of the Jacksonians and against anybody anywhere who raised the slave question . New England was so closely tied to the planters that her Whigs came to be known as " Cotton Whigs . " Her ...
Page 290
... Whigs to a man . * 6 When the precarious alliance of local groups which made up the Whig Party is examined , the campaign of 1840 becomes comprehensible . There were two interests unrepresented in the Whig camp , and both had to be ...
... Whigs to a man . * 6 When the precarious alliance of local groups which made up the Whig Party is examined , the campaign of 1840 becomes comprehensible . There were two interests unrepresented in the Whig camp , and both had to be ...
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... Whigs four for General Scott : Massachusetts , Vermont , Kentucky , and Tennessee . The popular vote was not so one - sided , for the Whigs were less than 300,000 behind in a total vote of about three million . Yet it was clear that the ...
... Whigs four for General Scott : Massachusetts , Vermont , Kentucky , and Tennessee . The popular vote was not so one - sided , for the Whigs were less than 300,000 behind in a total vote of about three million . Yet it was clear that the ...
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