James Madison

George Washington

Alexander Hamilton

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

The War of 1812

NOn-Intercourse Act

The Market Revolution

John Brown (Harper's Ferry)

Fredrick Douglass

Roger Taney and the Dred Scott decision

Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Wilmot Proviso

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Missouri Compromise 1820

Fort Sumter 1861

Secession

King Cotton diplomacy

Draft Riots

Manifest Destiny

War with Mexic

Henry Clay

William Lloyd Garrison

American Colonization Society (ACS)

Immigration (in a nation of Nativists)

Nat Turner

Nullification

The Monroe Doctrine