![]() ![]() Éva Eszter Szabó, PhD, Historian and Americanist, is assistant professor at the Department of American Studies, School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest. Her fields of research include the history of inter-American relations, the correlation between U.S. foreign and immigration policies, Latino communities in the U.S., and global migration in global politics. Potter (Author) 339 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 73.13 8 Used from 34. Migration – in its international and internal forms – has been one of the most important driving forces in American history and has played a crucial role in each and every phase of the nation’s life. David Morris Potter Don Edward Fehrenbacher The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War: 1848-1861 Audio CD Unabridged, Maby David M. The direct or indirect significance and impact of migration can be traced from colonial times to the present however, the era of the Civil War is most intriguing from the viewpoint of the political, economic, and social interests working behind the flows of immigration and internal migration. The point for this essay is to explore in what ways the migration factor contributed to the sectional crisis―and to the Civil War itself. The claim made in this paper is that the issue of migration was one of the factors exacerbating the tensions between the North and the South, playing a significant role in the outbreak of the nation’s largest cataclysm ever. In the two decades preceding the Civil War, international migration, i.e. ![]()
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