Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

Title: Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War Author: David S Brown ISBN: 9781668022818 Publisher: Scribner Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New American History 1622525 Publisher Description: From popular historian and author of the "marvelous" (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law--the Kansas-Nebraska Act--unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and South, creating the Republican party, and paving the way for the Civil War. The history of the United States includes a series of sectional compromises--the Constitutional Convention, the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and the Compromise of 1850. While these accords created an imperfect republic, or "a house divided," as Lincoln put it