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Lecture 6 - Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850

Published on Oct 22, 20103025 Views

David W. Blight

In this lecture, Professor Blight discusses some of the conflicts, controversies, and compromises that led up to the Civil War. After analyzing Frederick Douglass's 1852 Fourth of July speech and the

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877