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"This essay collection traces the full outline of Abraham Lincoln's important links with the trans-Mississippi American West. The volume features seven reprinted essays, two new ones, an introductory overview, and a bibliographic essay"--
Slavery --- Extension to the territories. --- Lincoln, Abraham, --- West (U.S.) --- United States --- Politics and government --- Territorial expansion --- History
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"This book, planned as the first of two volumes, aims to explore the Missouri Crisis and the many reverberations and ramifications thereof. The volumes are offered as part of the University of Missouri and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy's contribution to the state's 2021 bicentennial commemoration"--
Sectionalism (United States) --- Slavery --- Missouri compromise --- Missouri compromise. --- History --- Extension to the territories. --- Political aspects --- Historiography. --- United States. --- Missouri. --- United States --- Missouri --- Territorial expansion --- Politics and government
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Slavery --- Extension to the territories. --- Saint Louis (Mo.) --- United States --- West (U.S.) --- History --- Social aspects. --- Politics and government --- Territorial expansion
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"The admission of Missouri to the Union quickly became a constitutional crisis of the first order, inciting an intensive reexamination of the U.S. Constitution by the U.S. Congress. The heart of the question in need of resolution was whether that body possessed the authority to place conditions on a territory-in this instance Missouri-regarding restrictions on slavery-before its admittance to the Union. The larger question with which the legislators grappled were the limits of the Constitution's provisions granting Congress the authority to affect the institution of slavery-both where it already existed and where it could expand. The issue-what would come to be known as the Missouri Crisis-severely tested the still young republic and, some four decades later, would all but rend it asunder. This timely collection of original essays thoughtfully engages the intersections of history and constitutional law, and is certain to find eager readers among historians, legal scholars, political scientists, as well as many who call Missouri home"--
Slavery --- Missouri compromise. --- Political aspects --- History --- Legal status of enslaved persons in free states. --- Extension to the territories. --- Law and legislation --- History. --- United States. --- United States --- Missouri --- Politics and government
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Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system--particularly with the Louisiana Purchase--squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of that gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations and what actually happened. Kennedy reveals how the Louisiana Purchase had a major impact on land use and the growth of slavery. He examines the great financial interests (such as the powerful land com
Louisiana Purchase. --- Slavery --- Plantation owners --- Family farms --- Land settlement --- Resettlement --- Settlement of land --- Colonies --- Land use, Rural --- Human settlements --- Farms --- Farms, Small --- Private plot agriculture --- Owners of plantations --- Planters (Persons) --- Landowners --- Slaveholders --- Extension to the territories. --- Political activity --- History. --- Political aspects --- Jefferson, Thomas, --- Influence. --- United States --- Territorial expansion. --- Politics and government --- Annexations --- Louisiana Purchase --- Jefferson, Thomas --- Views on slavery --- Influence --- Territorial expansion --- Revolution, 1775-1783 --- 1783-1865 --- Extension to the territories --- History
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