Jackson through Reconstruction

Introduction Page
1. The Age of Jackson
   1. The Rise of the Common Man
   2. A Strong Presidency
   3. The South Carolina Nullification Controversy
   4. The War Against the Bank
   5. Jackson vs. Clay and Calhoun
   6. The Trail of Tears -- The Indian Removals
2. The Rise of American Industry
   1. The Canal Era
   2. Early American Railroads
   3. Inventors and Inventions
   4. The First American Factories
   5. The Emergence of "Women's Sphere"
   6. Irish and German Immigration
3. An Explosion of New Thought
   1. Religious Revival
   2. Experiments with Utopia
   3. Women's Rights
   4. Prison and Asylum Reform
   5. Hudson River School Artists
   6. Transcendentalism, An American Philosophy
4. The Peculiar Institution
   1. The Crowning of King Cotton
   2. Slave Life and Slave Codes
   3. The Plantation & Chivalry
   4. Free(?) African-Americans
   5. Rebellions on and off the Plantation
   6. The Southern Argument for Slavery
5. Abolitionist Sentiment Grows
   1. William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator
   2. African-American Abolitionists
   3. The Underground Railroad
   4. Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
6. Manifest Destiny
   1. The Lone Star Republic
   2. 54° 40' or Fight
   3. "American Blood on American Soil"
   4. The Mexican-American War
   5. Gold in California
7. An Uneasy Peace
   1. Wilmot's Proviso
   2. Popular Sovereignty
   3. Three Senatorial Giants: Clay, Calhoun and Webster
   4. The Compromise of 1850
8. "Bloody Kansas"
   1. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
   2. Border Ruffians
   3. The Sack of Lawrence
   4. The Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
   5. Canefight! Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner
9. From Uneasy Peace to Bitter Conflict
   1. The Dred Scott Decision
   2. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
   3. John Brown's Raid
   4. The Election of 1860
   5. The South Secedes
10. A House Divided
    1. Fort Sumter
    2. Strengths and Weaknesses: North vs. South
    3. First Blood and Its Aftermath
    4. Sacred Beliefs
    5. Bloody Antietam
    6. Of Generals and Soldiers
    7. Gettysburg: High Watermark of the Confederacy
    8. Northern Plans to End the War
    9. The Road to Appomattox
11. The War Behind the Lines
    1. The Emancipation Proclamation
    2. Wartime Diplomacy
    3. The Northern Homefront
    4. The Southern Homefront
    5. The Election of 1864
    6. The Assassination of the President
12. Reconstruction
    1. Presidential Reconstruction
    2. Radical Reconstruction
    3. A President Impeached
    4. Rebuilding the Old Order