"Lec 7 - "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55" The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119) Professor Blight narrates some of the important political crises of the 1850s. The lecture begins with an account of the Compromise of 1850, the swan song of the great congressional triumvirate--Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. The lecture then describes northern opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act passed as part of the Compromise, and the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. Professor Blight then introduces the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the most pivotal political event of the decade, and the catalyst for the birth of the Republican party. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction 06:39 - Chapter 2. Slavery in the Capital? Texas? Underground Railroad? Issues of 1850 14:49 - Chapter 3. How the Compromise of 1850 Was a Compromise 21:33 - Chapter 4. Consequences of the Fugitive Slave Act and Uncle Tom's Cabin 29:32 - Chapter 5. The Case of Anthony Burns 35:43 - Chapter 6. The Development of the Kansas-Nebraska Act 45:38 - Chapter 7. The Birth of the Republican Party and Conclusion Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
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Lec 1 - Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical
Lec 2 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's
Lec 3 - A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology
Lec 4 - A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement
Lec 5 - Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality
Lec 6 - Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850
Lec 8 - Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58
Lec 9 - John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?
Lec 10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
Lec 11 - Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?
Lec 13 - Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862
Lec 14 - Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863
Lec 15 - Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy
Lec 16 - Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War
Lec 17 - Homefronts and Battlefronts:
Lec 19 - To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings
Lec 20 - Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic
Lec 21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction
Lec 22 - Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President
Lec 23 - Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor
Lec 24 - Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to
Lec 25 - The Civil War and Reconstruction Era