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Manifest Destinies

by: Woodworth, Steven E.

Manifest Destinies

by: Woodworth, Steven E.

ISBN 13:
9780307265241
ISBN 10:
0307265242
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/02/2010
Publisher: Knopf

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This sweeping history of the 1840s captures America's enormous sense of possibility and shows how the extraordinary expansion of territories forced the nation to come to grips with the deep rift that would bring war just a decade later.

List of Maps	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
The Two-Party System
The Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign	p. 3
Tyler, Clay, and the Durability of the Two-Party System	p. 26
Abolitionism	p. 40
Westward Expansion
The Oregon Trail	p. 57
The Allure and the Danger of California	p. 78
The Mormons and Their Migration	p. 91
The Politics of Expansion
Tyler and Texas	p. 107
The Election of 1844	p. 125
Texas Annexation	p. 1393
War with Mexico
Armies Along the Rio Grande	p. 151
The Monterrey Campaign	p. 167
New Mexico, Chihuahua, and California	p. 189
Buena Vista	p. 212
Veracruz, Cerro Gordo, and the Politics of Expansion	p. 235
To the Gates of Mexico City	p. 256
A Conquered Capital and a Negotiated Peace	p. 276
The Political System and the Controversies of Expansion
The Election of 1848	p. 297
The California Gold Rush	p. 312
California and the Expansion of Slavery	p. 329
The Struggle for Compromise	p. 341
Notes	p. 359
Index	p. 395
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Manifest Destinies

Manifest Destinies

9780307265241

0307265242

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