A Short History of the United States
116 a short history of the united states The improvement in public education to which Mann devoted his life also stimulated the ...
The Jacksonian Era 117 purpose in life and meaningful activities that could reform society and make it better. This generation o ...
118 a short history of the united states No one writer epitomized romanticism in his works more than Ed- gar Allan Poe, who crea ...
The Jacksonian Era 119 artist Samuel F. Morse in 1844 ; and the sewing machine, by Elias Howe in 1846 ; and many other discoveri ...
120 a short history of the united states themselves that blacks would rise up one day and indiscriminately murder whites, just a ...
The Jacksonian Era 121 To make matters worse, race riots regularly occurred in a number of cities, including Washington. What tr ...
122 a short history of the united states The right of petition had been sustained, but the basic problem re- mained: slavery. An ...
The Jacksonian Era 123 attempt at a treaty of annexation, which required a two-thirds vote, was defeated in the Senate) that req ...
124 a short history of the united states When word of this engagement reached Washington, Polk immedi- ately prepared a war mess ...
The Jacksonian Era 125 dition that landed at Vera Cruz and swept inland to Mexico City. On September 14 , 1847 , American troops ...
126 a short history of the united states Hidalgo on February 2 , 1848 , and the Senate ratified it on March 10 by a vote of 38 t ...
5 The Dispute over Slavery, Secession, and the Civil War A lready the nation was reeling. On August 8 , 1846 , a young, impetuou ...
128 a short history of the united states defeat in the Senate. “As if by magic,” editorialized the Boston Whig, the Proviso “bro ...
The Dispute over Slavery, Secession, and the Civil War 129 the tip of South America, or fighting their way through the jungle of ...
130 a short history of the united states These resolutions included the admission of California as a state with- out reference t ...
The Dispute over Slavery, Secession, and the Civil War 131 The Compromise of 1850 ranks among the greatest and most impor- tant ...
132 a short history of the united states Irish and therefore tended to move to the farming communities along the frontier or to ...
The Dispute over Slavery, Secession, and the Civil War 133 work of the slaves. Overseers were usually poor whites who would ad- ...
134 a short history of the united states grow short-fiber cotton farther west. After the War of 1812 the cultiva- tion of cotton ...
The Dispute over Slavery, Secession, and the Civil War 135 published a newspaper called The Liberator in which he even denounced ...
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