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Jackson through Reconstruction

The United States came into its own during the 1800s. As pioneers expanded the nations boundaries infusing the country with a new sense of optimism, the people of the United States began to form a purely American character, different from Europe and the rest of the world.
An Internet Companion to the History of the United States from The Age of Jackson through Reconstruction

Welcome to The Age of Jackson through Reconstruction, a virtual companion to classroom studies in American history. In this program you will be joining students around the country as they pursue a deeper understanding of the people, ideas, places and events which characterized these times.

During this virtual experience, we will be members of Andrew Jackson's "kitchen cabinet" as he reshapes the character of our financial system and begins the policy of removing Indians from their native lands. We will see how the country seeks to achieve its "Manifest Destiny" through geographic, industrial and commercial expansion and diplomatic and armed conflict. We will explore how politics and ideology resulted in Civil War. We will also experience parts of this immense struggle and learn about the generals and soldiers who participated in it. We will bring you into the controversy, successes and failures of initial civil rights movements and attempts at Reconstruction.

The battle over slavery divided the country, resulting in a bloody Civil War. By 1865, thousands of African Americans became free citizens, although it would take years for them to be considered equal under the law.
Most of this program will take place online. This website will present exciting material on each of these areas and will catalog, aggregate and link to thoroughly reviewed information, maps, pictures and references on these subjects on hundreds of other websites for your use. Here students will be able to find the information they need for research papers, classroom projects and other resources available on subjects of interest to them. Almost every week, guests will be online to share their knowledge and expertise with both students and teachers. Here, teachers will find a place to share their ideas with other teachers, identify off-line resources and activities they can use in the classroom.

Join us as we begin this exciting "virtual" tour of mid-nineteenth century America.
UNIT AND FOCUS AREAS

Jackson through Reconstruction

  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
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