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Emancipation Era

Chapter 12: Sectional Crisis 1849 ― 1860

Condemned Compromise 1849-1853


Bleeding Kansas 1853-1857


A House Divided 1857-1860


Manifest Destiny 1841 ― 1849

Civil War 1860 ― 1865


Emancipation Era Sponsors


In Grateful Recognition


"Patrons of the Past"

(Sponsoring all nine Eras)

Doug Shubert

Adam Shubert

Cathy Gillespie



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Documents

Master Index

1790

Franklin's Parody of the Slavery Argument

1790

National Origins Act of 1790

1790

An Act Establishing the Government of the Territory of Kentucky

1790

Rhode Island Ratifies the Constitution

1790

Residence Act of 1790

1790

Funding Act of 1790

1790

To Bigotry, No Sanction

1790

Pennsylvania Constitution 1790

1790

Washington's Second 1790 State of the Union

1790

Second Congressional Reply to the Annual Message

1791

Admission of the State of Kentucky

1791

Hamilton's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank

Biographies

Thomas R. Marshall (1854-1925) was an Indiana lawyer and governor who became Woodrow Wilson's vice president in 1913. He served for eight years, including during World War I and the constitutional uncertainty surrounding Wilson's incapacitation in 1919. After leaving office, Marshall returned to law and public speaking before dying in Washington in 1925.

Thomas

Marshall

James S. Sherman (1855-1912) was a New York lawyer and longtime Republican congressman who became William Howard Taft's vice president in 1909. He served as a congressional leader and presided over the Senate while the Republican Party increasingly divided between Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. Sherman died six days before the 1912 election, and the Republican Party substituted Nicholas Murray Butler as his electoral running mate.

James

Sherman

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. His administration established the Federal Reserve, strengthened federal regulation of business, and ultimately brought the United States into World War I, after which Wilson championed his Fourteen Points and the League of Nations. His legacy is complicated by his administration’s racial segregation, suppression of speech, and expansion of presidential power.

Woodrow

Wilson

William H. Taft (1857-1930) was the 27th President of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and later became the 10th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Taft served in several important government positions before becoming president, including Governor of the Philippines and Secretary of War. As President, Taft strengthened federal antitrust enforcement, expanded railroad regulation, and promoted American economic influence abroad through his policy of Dollar Diplomacy.

William

H. Taft

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was the 26th president of the United States. After becoming president following William McKinley’s assassination, he advanced the “Square Deal,” strengthened federal regulation of corporations and railroads, protected millions of acres of public land, and expanded America’s influence abroad. Roosevelt left a lasting legacy as one of the most influential presidents of the Progressive Era.

Theodore

Roosevelt

Charles Curtis (1860-1936) was a Kansas lawyer and politician who rose from county government to the U.S. House, Senate, and Republican Senate leadership. He became Herbert Hoover's vice president in 1929 and presided over the Senate during the first years of the Great Depression.

Charles

Curtis

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