Lincoln And The Immigrant
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Lincoln And The Immigrant
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Author : Jason H. Silverman
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2015-09-03
Lincoln And The Immigrant written by Jason H. Silverman and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Between 1840 and 1860, America received more than four and a half million people from foreign countries as permanent residents, including a huge influx of newcomers from northern and western Europe, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans who became U.S. citizens with the annexation of Texas and the Mexican Cession, and a smaller number of Chinese immigrants. While some Americans sought to make immigration more difficult and to curtail the rights afforded to immigrants, Abraham Lincoln advocated for the rights of all classes of citizens. In this succinct study, Jason H. Silverman investigates Lincoln’s evolving personal, professional, and political relationship with the wide variety of immigrant groups he encountered throughout his life, revealing that Lincoln related to the immigrant in a manner few of his contemporaries would or could emulate. From an early age, Silverman shows, Lincoln developed an awareness of and a tolerance for different peoples and their cultures, and he displayed an affinity for immigrants throughout his legal and political career. Silverman reveals how immigrants affected not only Lincoln’s day-to-day life but also his presidential policies and details Lincoln’s opposition to the Know Nothing Party and the antiforeign attitudes in his own Republican Party, his reliance on German support for his 1860 presidential victory, his appointment of political generals of varying ethnicities, and his reliance on an immigrant for the literal rules of war. Examining Lincoln's views on the place of the immigrant in America’s society and economy, Silverman’s pioneering work offers a rare new perspective on the renowned sixteenth president.
Brought Forth On This Continent
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Author : Harold Holzer
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2024-02-13
Brought Forth On This Continent written by Harold Holzer and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation’s demographics, culture, and—perhaps most significantly—voting patterns. America’s newest residents fueled the national economy, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape and exposed an ugly, at times violent, vein of nativist bigotry. Abraham Lincoln’s rise ran parallel to this turmoil; even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln’s Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the war made clear just how important immigrants were, and how interwoven they had become in American society. Harold Holzer, winner of the Lincoln Prize, charts Lincoln’s political career through the lens of immigration, from his role as a member of an increasingly nativist political party to his evolution into an immigration champion, a progression that would come at the same time as he refined his views on abolition and Black citizenship. As Holzer writes, “The Civil War could not have been won without Lincoln’s leadership; but it could not have been fought without the immigrant soldiers who served and, by the tens of thousands, died that the ‘nation might live.’” An utterly captivating and illuminating work, Brought Forth on This Continent assesses Lincoln's life and legacy in a wholly original way, unveiling remarkable similarities between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first.
Abraham Lincoln And The Union
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Author : Oscar Handlin
language : en
Publisher: Little Brown
Release Date : 1980-01-01
Abraham Lincoln And The Union written by Oscar Handlin and has been published by Little Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A compassionate account of Lincoln's life focuses on his struggle for intellectual development, his early years as a lawyer and his election to Congress, and the successes and sorrows of his later years
Swedish Immigrants In Lincoln S Time
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Author : Nels Magnus Hokanson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Swedish Immigrants In Lincoln S Time written by Nels Magnus Hokanson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
Abraham Lincoln And The New Immigrant Irish In 1860s America
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Author : Dennis M. Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Abraham Lincoln And The New Immigrant Irish In 1860s America written by Dennis M. Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Irish categories.
Your Friend As Ever A Lincoln
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Author : Donald Allendorf
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Release Date : 2014
Your Friend As Ever A Lincoln written by Donald Allendorf and has been published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Meet the man who encouraged Lincoln's rise to the presidency. After being ousted from Germany in 1833 for his radical ideas, Gustav Koerner moved to Illinois to work as a lawyer. He and a young Abraham Lincoln had much in common, and they began a lifelong correspondence. Koerner later became an Illinois Supreme Court judge and lieutenant governor. Their friendship was instrumental in shaping Lincoln's early opinions and political goals. Through their letters comes a clear picture of this influential man and a fresh look at a well-known president.
America The Land Of My Dreams
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Author : George F. Steffanides
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
America The Land Of My Dreams written by George F. Steffanides and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Education categories.
Makers Of America
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Author : Emma Lilian Dana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1923
Makers Of America written by Emma Lilian Dana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with categories.
A Century Of Immigration
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Author : Christopher Collier
language : en
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release Date : 2012-12-01
A Century Of Immigration written by Christopher Collier and has been published by Blackstone Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation. A Century of Immigration reviews the century of 1820 through 1920, in which there were two waves of immigration to the United States. This book discusses the varied motivations and nationalities of these new Americans, as well as the effects of mass immigration on the country as a whole, and the rise of antiforeign sentiments among more recent immigrants.
Creating The Land Of Lincoln
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Author : Frank Cicero Jr.
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2018-03-15
Creating The Land Of Lincoln written by Frank Cicero Jr. and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with History categories.
In its early days, Illinois seemed destined to extend the American South. Its population of transplants lived an upland southern culture and in some cases owned slaves. Yet the nineteenth century and three constitutions recast Illinois as a crucible of northern strength and American progress. Frank Cicero Jr. provides an appealing new history of Illinois as expressed by the state's constitutions—and the lively conventions that led to each one. In Creating the Land of Lincoln, Cicero sheds light on the vital debates of delegates who, freed from electoral necessity, revealed the opinions, prejudices, sentiments, and dreams of Illinoisans at critical junctures in state history. Cicero simultaneously analyzes decisions large and small that fostered momentous social and political changes. The addition of northern land in the 1818 constitution, for instance, opened up the state to immigrant populations that reoriented Illinois to the north. Legislative abuses and rancor over free blacks influenced the 1848 document and the subsequent rise of a Republican Party that gave the nation Abraham Lincoln as its president. Cicero concludes with the 1870 constitution, revealing how its dialogues and resolutions set the state on the modern course that still endures today.