Provides term paper topics on events, people, inventions, cultural contributions, wars, and technological advances that reflect the country's nineteenth-century character and experience.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1: Presidential Election of 1800.
2: Barbary Pirate Wars (1801–1815).
3: Innovations and Inventions (1801–1807).
4: The Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Connection (1802).
5: Robert Fulton and the Steamboat (1803).
6: The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803–1806).
7: Louisiana Purchase (1803).
8: Marbury V. Madison (1803).
9: Fall of Aaron Burr (1804–1807).
10: Slave Trade Act (1807).
11: War of 1812 Catalysts (1807–1809).
12: John Jacob Astor and the Fur Trade (1808).
13: Tecumseh and ‘‘the Prophet’’ (1811).
14: War of 1812.
15: Hartford Convention (1814).
16: Francis Cabot Lowell and Early Industrialization (1815).
17: African Methodist Episcopal Church Founded (1816).
18: Erie Canal (1817).
19: Seminole Wars (1817–1858).
20: Mcculloch V. Maryland (1819).
21: Missouri Compromise (1820).
22: Land Act of 1820.
23: Survival on the Essex (1820)andmutiny on the Globe (1824).
24: Santa Fe Trail (1821).
25: American Colonization Society and the Founding of Liberia (1822).
26: Monroe Doctrine (1823).
27: Presidential Election of 1824, ‘‘a Corrupt Bargain’’.
28: New Harmony, indiana, Founded(1825).
29: Jacksonian Democracy and the Spoils System (1829–1837).
30: Davy Crockett ‘‘frontier Hero’’.
31: Abolitionist Movement (1830s).
32: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (1830).
33: Indian Removal Act (1830).
34: Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion (1831).
35: Nullification Crisis (1832–1833).
36: Democracy in America (1835 and 1840) by Alexis De Tocqueville.
