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United States Senate Missouri Compromise
926 wordsBy 1819, a heated controversy over whether or not Missouri was to be admitted to the Union as a slave state or as a free state was underway. Before Missouri's admission to the Union, there was an equal balance of free state and slave state senators in the United Sates Senate. If Missouri was to be admitted as a slave state without the admission of another free state, it would have upset the balance in the Senate. Not too long after the conflict over Missouri had begun, Maine had applied for stat...
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Issue Of Slavery Political Career
635 wordsAccording to historian Richard Hofstadter, Abraham Lincoln was the exemplar of the self-made man, having come from a humble background to rapidly ascend through the political ranks, gaining success and power but not forgetting humanity and moral responsibility. Hofstadter also contends that Lincoln was a very simple man and wished to keep it that way [i]t was precisely in his attainments as a common man that Lincoln felt himself to be remarkable, and in this light that he interpreted to the worl...
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Economic And Social State And Local
870 wordsEven more energetic a sphere of historical controversy than that over the Populists is the historians' argument over the Progressive movement. The Progressives were a heterogeneous collection of reformers. Active chiefly in the nation's cities and the urban mass media (and in the legislatures of such states as Wisconsin and New York), the Progressives carried out efforts to reform American society and governance on all fronts. They numbered among their ranks social Progressives (such as Jane Add...
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Liberal Society Social Revolution
1,797 wordsConsensus Historians The Consensus Historians Historiography Consensus Historians The consensus view of History emerged in the United States in 1950 until its eventual dismiss in 1965. Consensus historians emerged in a time period when there were not many consensuses in the United States (Novick pg. 333). The historians of the era knew of the turmoil and felt that they needed to focus their attention on what united America and not what brought the country down. At this time there were three infl...
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Checks And Balances Founding Fathers
1,579 wordsHofstadter Summary: The Founding Fathers: The Age of Realism Summary of Section The reasoning behind the Constitution of the United States is presented as based upon the philosophy of Hobbes and the religion of Calvin. It assumes the natural state of mankind in a state of war, and that the carnal mind is at enmity with God. Throughout, the struggle between democracy and tyranny is discussed as the Founding Fathers who envisioned the Constitution in Philadelphia in 1787 believed not in total demo...
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Founding Fathers Pulitzer Prize
2,845 wordsWORKS of philosophy can last for millennia, novels for centuries. Works of history, if theyre really good, survive maybe a generation. But Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It is now celebrating its fiftieth year in print and remains a solid backlist seller. High school students, undergraduates, and graduate students read it, as do lay readers. Journalists grab it off the shelf when they need to pepper a column with a dash of historical authority. Academ...
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