Civil War , in U.S. History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...would be admitted as free states, the South became more anxious...Texas (certain to be a slave state) and the Mexican War and...branches and dissolved the Whig party . Most Southern Whigs joined the Democratic party , one of the few remaining...Sumter. The new Confederate government under President Jefferson...are C. C. Buel and R. U. Johnson, ed., Battles...1942 44), both by D. S. Freeman, and Lincoln Finds...History of the People of the United States during Lincolns Administration...1927, repr. 1970); R. S. Henry, The Story of the...Donald, 1969); E. Foner, Politics and Ideology in the Age of...