HIST 494 - Antebellum America, 1815-1850

Credit(s): 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
When Offered: Fall - Even

A study of this remarkable period of American growth and expansion and the conflicts that pushed the nation toward the Civil War, with emphasis on the market and transportation revolutions, reform movements, the evolution of American democracy, territorial acquisition, the U.S.-Mexico War, slavery, sectionalism and presidential administrations, from Madison to Polk, particularly that of Andrew Jackson.

Crosslisted With: HIST 694