| Description |
426 pages ; 21 cm |
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pt. 1. Time of civil strife: slavery and states' rights: Henry Clay: Compromise Speech of 1850 -- John C. Calhoun: Compromise Speech of 1850 -- Daniel Webster: Compromise Speech of 1850 -- Stephen A. Douglas: The Kansas-Nebraska Bill -- Abraham Lincoln: The Cooper Institute Address -- Henry W. Grady: The race problem in the South -- pt. 2. The dawn of the twentieth century: American nationalism and expansion: William Jennings Bryan: The Cross of Gold Speech -- Robert G. Ingersoll: The Chicago and New York Gold Speech -- Albert J. Beveridge: The Star of Empire -- Carl Schurz: The policy of imperialism -- Theodore Roosevelt: The man with the muck rake -- pt. 3. World Wars I and II: crises and controversies: Woodrow Wilson: "Too Proud to Fight" Speech: war message -- Robert M. LaFollette: Against war with Germany -- William Howard Taft: For the League of Nations -- Henry Cabot Lodge: Against the Constitution of the League of Nations -- William E. Borah: Against the League of Nations -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: A plea for neutrality: America's answer to Japan's challenge. |
| Subject |
United States -- History.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
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| Added Author |
Shafter, Edward Merl, 1926- editor.
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