Topic summary
Antebellum South
There were just over 3.2 million enslaved people in the U.S. in 1850, about 14% of the total population.
Jacksonian Era
Buildup to the Civil War
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Missouri Compromise
Indian removal
Trail of Tears
Manifest destiny
Nullification crisis
Mexican–American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Bleeding Kansas
Election of Lincoln