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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Inspected Title: Parties and politics in antebellum Georgia Abstract: This dissertation examines Georgia politics and parties from the 1820s through secession. Chapters I and II discuss antebellum Georgia society and chart state party development through the landmark 1840 election. The peculiar nature of the Georgia Whig party is particularly emphasized. Chapter III completes the discussion of economic issues and considers the political impact of Texas annexation. The Mexican War and the emerging controversy over slavery in the territories are the main subjects of Chapter IV Chapters V and VI offer an overview which summarizes and explains the institutional operations and social bases of Georgia's Jacksonian party system. The narrative resumes in Chapter VII with the crisis of 1850 and the destruction of the Georgia Whig party. Chapter VIII details the escalation of the sectional conflict between the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the defeat of the Lecompton constitution. Chapter IX explores the dynamics of Georgia's secession from the Union in January 1861. The dissertation draws upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from manuscripts and newspapers to voting statistics, census figures, and a database of antebellum Georgia legislators. |
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