The Nationalism Era
The War of 1812
Water Transportation
Land Transportation
Lines on the Map
John Quincy Adams
The Andrew Jackson Presidency
The Lowell Mills
Communication in the Mid-1800s
The Reform Era
Great Awakenings
American Literature
Social Reforms
The American Middle Class
The Quality of Life
Paint and Canvas
Changing Lands
The Expansion Era
Newcomers
The Lone Star Republic
The Mexican War
Politics After the Mexican War
The West in the Mid 1850s
Pre-Civil War
The South Argues for Slavery
King Cotton
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Is There Free Soil?
Bleeding Kansas
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Election of 1860
The Civil War Era
Opening Volleys
East and West
Turning Point
Union Victory
Photography and the Civil War
Lincoln's Assassination
The Reconstruction Era
"Terrible Swift Sword"
Radical Republican Reconstruction
Black Codes
General and President
The Transcontinental Railroad