"A hell of a storm": the Kansas-Nebraska act and the birth of the republican party, 1854-55 [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, from the 1840s to 1877 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 talks about some importants political events to the outbreak of Civil War in America. He mentions a few persons that had a leading role in this war, such as: Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. He also talks about the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, wich represents the birth of the Republican part