HIS 3613 Jacksonian and Antebellum America
This course engages the major events, movements, debates, institutions, and themes in the United States from 1815 to the eve of the Civil War. Key political, economic, ideological, legal, technological, and social developments are considered. Topics include territorial acquisition and expansion, the Market and Industrial Revolutions, the rise of democracy, the Jackson presidency, religious revivalism and social reform, the antebellum slave system, nationalism and sectionalism, the Mexican War, the crisis of 1850, and the road to sectional division and crisis. PR: Sophomore status or departmental approval required.