6. Transformation of the Economy and Society in Antebellum America
*The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy
*Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structures
*Immigration and nativist reaction
*Planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton South
7. The Transformation of Politics in Antebellum America
*Emergence of the second party system
*Federal authority and its opponents: judicial federalism, the Bank War, tariff
controversy, and states’ rights debates
*Jacksonian democracy and its successes and limitations
8. Religion, Reform, and Renaissance in Antebellum America
*Evangelical Protestant revivalism
*Social reforms
*Ideals of domesticity
*Transcendentalism and utopian communities
*American Renaissance: literary and artistic expressions
9. Territorial Expansion and Manifest Destiny
*Forced removal of American Indians to the trans-Mississippi West
*Western migration and cultural interactions
*Territorial acquisitions
*Early U.S. imperialism: the Mexican War
*The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy
*Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structures
*Immigration and nativist reaction
*Planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton South
7. The Transformation of Politics in Antebellum America
*Emergence of the second party system
*Federal authority and its opponents: judicial federalism, the Bank War, tariff
controversy, and states’ rights debates
*Jacksonian democracy and its successes and limitations
8. Religion, Reform, and Renaissance in Antebellum America
*Evangelical Protestant revivalism
*Social reforms
*Ideals of domesticity
*Transcendentalism and utopian communities
*American Renaissance: literary and artistic expressions
9. Territorial Expansion and Manifest Destiny
*Forced removal of American Indians to the trans-Mississippi West
*Western migration and cultural interactions
*Territorial acquisitions
*Early U.S. imperialism: the Mexican War