Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 282 p)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
142947887X
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9781429478878
Series Statement:
Reconstructing America no. 10
Content:
This is an account of two significant laws passed during the US Civil War, The Confiscation Acts (1861-62). It examines the political contexts, especially the debates in Congress, and how the failure of the Confiscation Acts during the war presaged the political and structural shortcomings of Reconstruction afterwards
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The First Confiscation ActThe Second Confiscation Act: the act and its opponents -- The second act : divided Republican support and flawed result -- Enforcement of the second act : Lincoln and bates -- Early military confiscation -- Rules of war and later military confiscation -- The Treasury's part in confiscation -- The politics of confiscation -- Andrew Johnson and the end of confiscation -- Confiscation and the courts : jurisdiction and procedures -- Confiscation and the courts : constitutionality and duration.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0823224910
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0823224899
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823224913
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823224890
Additional Edition:
Print version Civil War Confiscation Acts
Language:
English
