Conservative Americanism - Nativism, Unionism, and Slavery in Border South Politics, 18541861

In Conservative Americanism, the author traces Conservative Americanist ideology between 1854 to 1861 and argues that Border Southerners who joined the American or Know Nothing Party were nativists who believed that foreigners and foreign ideas threatened the institution of slavery and the stability of the Union.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Rise of Conservative Americanism, 1854-1855
Chapter 2: Slavery and the National American Party, Summer 1855
Chapter 3: A Conservative American Party, 1855-1856
Chapter 4: The Election of 1856
Chapter 5: Political Realignment, 1857-1859
Chapter 6: The Constitutional Union Party
Chapter 7: Compromise and the Secession Crisis
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Jesse George-Nichol is postdoctoral fellow at the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia.

Product details

• Authors: Jesse George-Nichol
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2024
• EAN: 9781666923339
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-333-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: New Studies in Southern History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), c 1800 to c 1900, Political science & theory, Local History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Central Southern States, US South, American Civil War and Reconstruction (1861–1877)