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Newspapers and antebellum America -- The Missouri Compromise, 1820 -- The Back-to-Africa Movement, 1822 -- The Monroe Doctrine, 1823 -- The elections of 1824 and 1828 -- The Massachusetts Public School Act, 1827 -- The South Carolina Tariff Conflict, 1828 -- The Indian Removal Act, 1830 -- William Lloyd Garrison and the abolitionist movement, 1831 -- Nat Turner and slave insurrections, 1831 -- The Nullification Act, 1832 -- The Bank of the United States, 1832 -- The penny press and the moral war, 1833 -- The Alamo and Texas annexation, 1836 -- The Trail of Tears, 1838 -- The Amistad and Cinque, 1839 -- The Dorr Rebellion, 1842 -- Joseph Smith and the Mormons, 1844 -- Manifest Destiny, 1845 -- The War with Mexico, 1846 -- The Wilmot Proviso, 1846 -- Seneca Falls and women's rights, 1848 -- The California gold rush, 1848 -- The compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act, 1850 -- Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852 -- The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 -- The caning of Charles Sumner, 1856 -- The Dred Scott decision, 1857 -- The Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858 -- John Brown's raid, 1859. |
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