The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

290 Chapter 10 The Making of Middle-Class America He had a remarkable ear for rendering common speech poetically, for employing ...

Education for Democracy 291 missionary salesmen, called colporteurs, who fanned out across the country preaching the gospel and ...

292 Chapter 10 The Making of Middle-Class America Mann. Both were New Englanders, Whigs, trained in the law, and in other ways c ...

Chapter Review 293 country is yet too young for old professors,” a Bostonian informed a foreign visitor in the 1830s, “and, besi ...

294 Chapter 10 The Making of Middle-Class America Key Terms abolitionism Worldwide movement to end slavery. In the United States ...

Chapter Review 295 Research and Explore Evangelical Religion & Politics, Then and Now, p. 276 Religious Troublemakers of the ...

Has your family crossed borders? 296 In 2010 Adriana Carillo, a member of the Mexican sen- ate, derided President Barack Obama’s ...

Westward ExpansionWestward Expansion 11 CONTENTS ■Photographer David McNew evokes the brilliant desert sunsets of nineteenth-cen ...

298 Chapter 11 Westward Expansion Tyler’s Troubles John Tyler, who became president in 1841 after the death of William Henry Har ...

The Texas Question 299 land and something approaching local autonomy to groups of settlers from the United States. By 1830 there ...

300 Chapter 11 Westward Expansion February 1844, but before he could sign it he was killed by the accidental explosion of a cann ...

California and Oregon 301 “Going west” had always been laborious, but in the 1840s the distances covered were longer by far and ...

302 Chapter 11 Westward Expansion perverse, muddy Platte (“a mile wide and six inches deep”) past Fort Laramie to the Rockies. I ...

other hand, argued that difficult frontier conditions enlarged “the scope of women’s place” and in so doing undermined tradition ...

304 Chapter 11 Westward Expansion Although many women had doubts about their austere new world—“Nothing can atone for the loss o ...

War with Mexico 305 complied and in May 1846 Polk notified Great Britain that he intended to terminate the joint occupation. The ...

306 Chapter 11 Westward Expansion Polk then ordered General Zachary Taylor into Texas to defend the border. However, the locatio ...

To the Halls of Montezuma 307 that he had never bothered to cast a ballot in an election. Polk believed that he lacked the “gras ...

308 Chapter 11 Westward Expansion headed by Captain John C. Frémont, leader of an American exploring party that happened to be i ...

Slavery: Storm Clouds Gather 309 paying less for it. He recalled his chief negotiator, Nicholas P. Trist, who ignored the order. ...