A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume II: "The Missouri Question" and Its Answers Volume 2

by John Craig Hammond and Jeffrey L. Pasley

Many new states entered the United States around 200 years ago, but only Missouri almost killed the nation it was trying to join. When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment banning slavery from the prospective new state in February 1819, it set off a two-year political crisis in which growing northern antislavery sentiment confronted the aggressive westward expansion of the peculiar institution by southerners. The Missouri Crisis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826222498
• ISBN13: 9780826222497
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"