Antebellum America
expansion and the slavery crisis
01
The Age of the Common Man
1828
02
King Andrew I
1829–1837
03
The Nullification Crisis
1828–1833
04
The Trail of Tears
1830–1842
05
The Market Revolution
1815–1860
06
King Cotton
1793–1860
07
The Burned-Over District
1820–1850
08
The Age of Reform
1826–1860
09
The Peculiar Institution
1808–1860
10
Resistance and Abolition
1829–1860
11
Manifest Destiny
1836–1846
12
The Mexican War
1846–1848
13
The Compromise That Wasn't
1848–1852
14
Bleeding Kansas
1854–1856
15
Dred Scott and the House Divided
1857–1859
16
1860
1860–1861
17
And the War Came
1861–1862
18
The Death of Slavery
1863–1865