HIS 3224 - Antebellum America (3)

When Offered: Fall. Odd-numbered years
A study of the United States from the end of the War of 1812 until the Civil War. Variable content. Topics include the meaning of Jacksonian democracy; slavery and race relations; the antislavery movement and the rise of social reform movements including temperance, utopianism, and women’s rights; Indian removal; the market economy; the westward movement; the Mexican American War; the free soil movement; and the secession crisis.