Audios
Expansion and slavery: legacies of the mexican war and the compromise of 1850 [The civil war and reconstruction era, 1845-1877]
Autor
Blight, David
Resumen
Educação Superior::Ciências Humanas::História Presents 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 lesson the professor discusses with the students the main reasons that may have caused the Civil War and analyzes an important speech by Frederick Douglas on Fourth of July. He also explains why the great rivalry between northerners and southerners