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Politics and ideology in a free society: Illinois from statehood to Civil War /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Politics and ideology in a free society: Illinois from statehood to Civil War // Graham Alexander Peck.
Author:	Peck, Graham Alexander,
Description:	1 electronic resource (582 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 63-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International63-04A.
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3012055
ISBN:	9780493225111

Politics and ideology in a free society: Illinois from statehood to Civil War /
Peck, Graham Alexander,

Politics and ideology in a free society: Illinois from statehood to Civil War /Graham Alexander Peck. - 1 electronic resource (582 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 63-04, Section: A.

This dissertation explains the rise of the 1850s Republican party and the concurrent collapse of the northern Democratic party by examining the interplay of Illinois politics, national politics, western economic development, and northern cultural values from 1816 to 1860. Chapter one studies the failed 1820s movement to engraft slavery on Illinois. Favorable conditions existed for slavery's legalization in early Illinois, but the difficulty of advocating slavery in a free society ultimately undermined the proslavery movement. This problem later troubled Illinois Democrats, whose southern alliance had proslavery consequences. Chapters two through four chronicle the history of the Democratic party from 1825 to 1847. The chapters argue that the Democrats' entrepreneurial outlook, agrarian philosophy, and tolerance for slavery induced them to support national expansion in the 1840s. The consequent acquisition of Mexican territory reignited a long-smoldering sectional conflict over slavery's expansion, and chapter five examines the contemporaneous embrace of antislavery politics by a small majority of Illinoisans. The chapter argues that the abolitionist doctrine of slavery's locality and freedom's nationality, which conflated national and northern interests, enabled both Free Soilers and Whigs to justify a political assault on slavery's expansion in 1848. Chapter six contends that the emergence of antislavery politics explains Stephen Douglas' puzzling decision to champion the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Douglas sought to resolve the problem of slavery in a free society by uprooting Congress' antislavery precedents and the nation's antislavery principles. Ironically, the Kansas-Nebraska Act greatly intensified antislavery agitation, and chapter seven examines Douglas' desperate attempt after 1854 to quell the antislavery uprising. The chapter contends that the moderately proslavery implications of his Unionist ideology resulted in his alienation from both the north and the south by 1860. Chapter eight focuses on Abraham Lincoln, and explains why the Republican party triumphed in the 1850s. The chapter argues that the Republicans' commitment to an antislavery nationalism cloaked the party's radical designs with the conservative claim that antislavery politics preserved the founders' principles. In Lincoln's words, the principle of equality rendered the Union worthy of preservation.

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ISBN: 9780493225111Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.
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Civil War

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