Description: Further DetailsTitle: John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850Condition: NewEAN: 9781421423876ISBN: 9781421423876Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/27/2017Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 14mmItem Weight: 295gAuthor: Peter Charles HofferLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1421423871Description: Passed by the House of Representatives at the start of the 1836 session, the gag rule rejected all petitions against slavery, effectively forbidding Congress from addressing the antislavery issue until it was rescinded in late 1844. In the Senate, a similar rule lasted until 1850. Strongly supported by all southern and some northern Democratic congressmen, the gag rule became a proxy defense of slavery's morality and economic value in the face of growing pro-abolition sentiment. In John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850, Peter Charles Hoffer transports readers to Washington, DC, in the period before the Civil War to contextualize the heated debates surrounding the rule. At first, Hoffer explains, only a few members of Congress objected to the rule. These antislavery representatives argued strongly for the reception and reading of incoming abolitionist petitions. When they encountered an almost uniformly hostile audience, however, John Quincy Adams took a different tack. He saw the effort to gag the petitioners as a violation of their constitutional rights.Adams's campaign to lift the gag rule, joined each year by more and more northern members of Congress, revealed how the slavery issue promoted a virulent sectionalism and ultimately played a part in southern secession and the Civil War. A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryBook Series: Witness to HistoryRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850
Title: John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850
EAN: 9781421423876
ISBN: 9781421423876
Release Date: 12/27/2017
Release Year: 2017
ISBN-10: 1421423871
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 120 Pages
Publication Name: John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Slavery, American Government / Legislative Branch, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 19th Century, Civil Rights, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Presidents & Heads of State
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Witness to History Ser.
Format: Hardcover
