Dred Scott, bleeding Kansas, and the impending crisis of the union, 1855-58 [The civil war and reconstruction era, 1845-1877]

Educação Superior::Ciências Humanas::HistóriaPresents a course about the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War with the Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University, David W. Blight. In this class the professor continues the argument about the main the political events of 1850s. He explains what happened after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the major Act of the decade to the U.S. The professor also talks about the birth of the Republican party and what this came to represent for American peopl