Early Republic and Antebellum America

Editor: Bates, Christopher
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge

Single-User Purchase Price: $500.00
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ISBN: 978-0-7656-8126-3
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count: 151
Book Status: Available
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This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary, illustrated encyclopedia covers in depth one of the most colorful and eventful periods in U.S. history--the eight decades from the end of the American Revolution to the eve of the Civil War.

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Interpreting the Early Republic and Antellum America, 1783–1861
  • A
  • Abolitionist and Antislavery Movements
  • Adams, Abigail
  • Adams, John
  • Adams, John Quincy
  • Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)
  • African Colonization
  • African Methodist Episcopal Church
  • African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
  • Aging and the Elderly
  • Agriculture
  • Alamo, Battle of the
  • Alcohol and Temperance
  • Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
  • Amistad Incident
  • Anthony, Susan B.
  • Anti-Federalists
  • Anti-Masonic Party
  • Architecture
  • Army, U.S.
  • Army Corps of Engineers, U.S.
  • Aroostook War
  • Art, Fine
  • Art, Folk
  • Asbury, Francis
  • Ashley, William Henry
  • Astor, John Jacob
  • Astor Place Riot
  • Atchison, David Rice
  • Atlanta, Georgia
  • Audubon, John James
  • Austin, Stephen F.
  • B
  • Baltimore, Maryland
  • Bancroft, George
  • Bank of the United States
  • Bankruptcy and Insolvency
  • Banks and Banking
  • Banneker, Benjamin
  • Baptists
  • Barbary Wars
  • Barnum, P.T.
  • Beecher, Catharine
  • Beecher, Henry Ward
  • Bennett, James Gordon
  • Benton, Thomas Hart
  • Bible
  • Bill of Rights
  • Birney, James Gillespie
  • Birth and Childbearing
  • Black Hawk War
  • Blackwell, Elizabeth
  • Bleeding Kansas
  • Boone, Daniel
  • Booth, Edwin
  • Boston, Massachusetts
  • Breckinridge, John C.
  • British Americans
  • Brook Farm
  • Brown, Charles Brockden
  • Brown, John
  • Bryant, William Cullen
  • Buchanan, James
  • Buffalo, New York
  • Bulfinch, Charles
  • Buntline, Ned
  • Burns, Anthony
  • Burr, Aaron
  • C
  • Cabinet, Presidential
  • Calhoun, John C.
  • California
  • Canada, Relations with
  • Canals
  • Caroline Affair
  • Carson, Kit
  • Cass, Lewis
  • Catholicism
  • Channing, William Ellery
  • Charity and Philanthropy
  • Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837)
  • Charleston, South Carolina
  • Chase (Samuel), Impeachment of
  • Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Children and Child Rearing
  • China, Relations with
  • Chinese Americans
  • Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)
  • Christiana Riot
  • Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Cities and Urban Life
  • Civil War, The Road to
  • Clay, Henry
  • Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850)
  • Clinton, George
  • Clocks and Clock Manufacturing
  • Clothing and Fashion
  • Coal
  • Cole, Thomas
  • Colt, Samuel
  • Columbia University
  • Compromise of 1850
  • Congregationalists
  • Congress, U.S.
  • Constitution, U.S.
  • Constitutions, State
  • Convention of 1818
  • Cooper, James Fenimore
  • Corn
  • Corporations
  • Cotton
  • Creoles
  • Crimean War, Impact of
  • Crittenden Compromise (1860)
  • Crockett, Davy
  • Cuba, Relations with
  • D
  • Dance and Dancing
  • Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
  • Davis, Jefferson
  • Death and Dying
  • Decatur, Stephen
  • Deere, John
  • Delany, Martin R.
  • Democratic Party
  • Democratic-Republican Party
  • Disciples of Christ
  • Dix, Dorothea
  • Donner Party
  • Dorr Rebellion
  • Douglas, Stephen A.
  • Douglass, Frederick
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
  • Dueling
  • Dwight, Timothy
  • E
  • Eaton, Peggy
  • Economy and Economic Policy
  • Education and Schools
  • Election of 1796
  • Election of 1800
  • Election of 1824
  • Election of 1828
  • Election of 1840
  • Election of 1860
  • Elliott, Jesse Duncan
  • Embargo Act (1807)
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Environment and Nature, Views of
  • Epidemics
  • Episcopalians
  • Erie Canal
  • Everett, Edward
  • F
  • Federalist Party
  • Female Reform Movement
  • Filibustering
  • Fillmore, Millard
  • Finney, Charles Grandison
  • Fishing
  • Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
  • Food and Diet
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Forrest, Edwin
  • Fort Sumter, Attack on
  • Forty-Eighters
  • Foster, Stephen
  • Fourierism
  • France, Relations with
  • Franklin Institute
  • Fraternal Societies
  • Free Blacks, Business and Economy
  • Free Blacks, Life and Culture
  • Free Soil Movement and Party
  • Freemasonry
  • Freeport Doctrine
  • Frémont, John C.
  • French Americans
  • French Revolution, Impact of
  • Freneau, Philip
  • Fries's Rebellion
  • Fugitive Slave Laws (1793 and 1850)
  • Fuller, Margaret
  • Fulton, Robert
  • Fur Trade
  • Furniture and Furnishings
  • G
  • Gabriel's Rebellion
  • Gadsden Purchase (1853)
  • Gag Rule
  • Gallatin, Albert
  • Gambling
  • Games and Toys
  • Garrison, William Lloyd
  • Gender Roles
  • Genet Affair
  • German Americans
  • Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
  • Gottschalk, Louis Moreau
  • Graham, Sylvester
  • Great Britain, Relations with
  • Great Lakes
  • Great Migration
  • Great Plains
  • Greeley, Horace
  • Greenough, Horatio
  • Grimké, Sarah, and Angelina Grimké
  • Guns and Weapons
  • H
  • Haitian Revolution, Impact of
  • Hale, John Parker
  • Hamilton, Alexander
  • Harpers Ferry Raid
  • Harrison, William Henry
  • Hartford Convention
  • Harvard University
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  • Hewlett, James
  • Holidays and Observances
  • Horses
  • Houston, Sam
  • Howe, Elias
  • Howe, Samuel Gridley
  • Hunting
  • I
  • Immigration and Immigrants
  • Industrialization
  • Irish Americans
  • Iron and Steel
  • Irving, Washington
  • J
  • Jackson, Andrew
  • Japan, Relations with
  • Jay, John
  • Jay Treaty (1794)
  • Jefferson, Thomas
  • Jews
  • Johnson, Richard Mentor
  • Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823)
  • Judiciary Act (1789)
  • K
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
  • Kearny, Stephen W.
  • L
  • Labor and Unions
  • Lafayette's Tour
  • Laffite, Jean
  • Lamy, Jean-Baptiste
  • Larkin, Thomas O.
  • Latin America, Relations with
  • Latrobe, Benjamin
  • Law, Business and Labor
  • Law, Criminal
  • Law, Property and Contract
  • Law Enforcement
  • Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Lexington, Kentucky
  • Liberty Party
  • Libraries
  • Library of Congress
  • Lincoln, Abraham
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  • Lind, Jenny
  • Literature
  • Livestock, Dairy Farming, and Ranching
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  • Los Angeles, California
  • Louisiana Purchase (1803)
  • Lovejoy, Elijah P.
  • Lowell, James Russell
  • Lowell System
  • Lyceums
  • M
  • Macready, William Charles
  • Madison, Dolley
  • Madison, James
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Mann, Horace
  • Marbury v. Madison (1803)
  • Marine Corps, U.S.
  • Market Revolution
  • Marriage and Divorce
  • Marshall, John
  • Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816)
  • Massachusetts Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842)
  • Maury, Matthew Fontaine
  • McCormick, Cyrus
  • McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
  • Medicine and Health
  • Melville, Herman
  • Mental Illness
  • Merchants
  • Methodists
  • Mexican-American War
  • Mexican Americans
  • Mexico, Relations with
  • Mid-Atlantic
  • Midwest
  • Military Academy, U.S.
  • Military and Naval Technology
  • Millennialism and Adventism
  • Mining
  • Minstrelsy
  • Missionaries and Missionary Work
  • Missions of California
  • Mississippi River
  • Missouri Compromise (1820)
  • Money and Currency
  • Monroe, James
  • Monroe Doctrine
  • Mormons
  • Morse, Samuel F.B.
  • Morton, William T.G.
  • Mott, Lucretia
  • Mount Holyoke College
  • Music, Classical
  • Music, Folk and Popular
  • Music, Sacred
  • N
  • Napoleonic Wars, Impact of
  • National Debt
  • National Road
  • Nationalism
  • Native American-African American Relations
  • Native American-U.S. Government Relations
  • Native Americans, California
  • Native Americans, Great Plains
  • Native Americans, Mid-Atlantic
  • Native Americans, Midwest
  • Native Americans, New England
  • Native Americans, Pacific Northwest
  • Native Americans, South
  • Native Americans, Southwest
  • Nativism and the Know-Nothing Party
  • Naturalization Acts (1790s)
  • Naval Academy, U.S.
  • Navy, U.S.
  • Neutrality Act (1794)
  • New England
  • New Orleans, Louisiana
  • New York City, New York
  • Newport, Rhode Island
  • Newspapers and Periodicals
  • Northwest Territory
  • Notre Dame, University of
  • Nullification Crisis
  • O
  • Oberlin College
  • Ohio River
  • Oneida Commune
  • Oregon Trail
  • Osceola
  • Ostend Manifesto (1854)
  • O'Sullivan, John L.
  • Owen, Robert
  • P
  • Pacific Northwest
  • Paine, Thomas
  • Panic of 1819
  • Panic of 1837
  • Panic of 1857
  • Parker, Theodore
  • Peale, Charles Willson
  • Peddlers
  • Perry, Matthew C.
  • Perry, Oliver Hazard
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Phillips, Wendell
  • Photography
  • Pierce, Franklin
  • Pike, Zebulon M.
  • Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth
  • Pinckney's Treaty (1795)
  • Pinkerton, Allan
  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Planters and Plantations
  • Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Poetry
  • Politics and Political Culture
  • Polk, James K.
  • Pony Express
  • Popular Culture
  • Population and Demographics
  • Postal Service, U.S.
  • Presbyterians
  • Presidency
  • Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
  • Princeton University
  • Printing and Publishing
  • Prisons and Penitentiaries
  • Prostitution
  • Purvis, Robert
  • Q
  • Quakers
  • R
  • Railroads
  • Randolph, John
  • Religion, African American
  • Religion, Native American
  • Republican Party
  • Rice
  • Richmond, Virginia
  • Ripley, George
  • Roads and Turnpikes
  • Rocky Mountains
  • Roebling, John A.
  • Ross, John
  • Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)
  • S
  • Sabbatarianism and the Sabbath
  • Sacagawea
  • San Francisco, California
  • Santa Fe Trail
  • Science and Technology
  • Scots-Irish Immigrants
  • Scott, Winfield
  • Secession
  • Second Great Awakening
  • Seneca Falls Convention
  • Sequoyah
  • Seton, Elizabeth Ann
  • Seward, William H.
  • Sex and Sexuality
  • Shakers
  • Shipbuilding
  • Shoemaking
  • Simms, William Gilmore
  • Singer, Isaac
  • Slater, Samuel
  • Slave Patrols
  • Slave Trade, Domestic
  • Slave Trade, International
  • Slavery, Life and Culture
  • Slavery, Resistance to
  • Smith, Jedediah
  • Smith, Joseph
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • South, Lower
  • South, Upper
  • Southwest
  • Spain, Relations with
  • Spas and Gardens
  • Spiritualism
  • Spoils System
  • Sports and Recreation
  • St. Louis, Missouri
  • Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
  • Steam Engine
  • Steamboats and Steamships
  • Stewart, Maria W.
  • Stone, Lucy
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher
  • Stuart, Gilbert
  • Sumner, Charles
  • Supreme Court, U.S.
  • T
  • Tammany Hall
  • Taney, Roger B.
  • Tariffs
  • Taxation
  • Taylor, Zachary
  • Tecumseh
  • Telegraph
  • Tenskwatawa
  • Texas
  • Textiles
  • Theater
  • Thoreau, Henry David
  • Timber and Logging
  • Tobacco
  • Trade, Foreign
  • Trail of Tears
  • Transcendentalism
  • Transportation Revolution
  • Trumbull, John
  • Truth, Sojourner
  • Tubman, Harriet
  • Turner Rebellion
  • Tyler, John
  • U
  • Underground Railroad
  • Unitarians
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Virginia
  • V
  • Van Buren, Martin
  • Vanderbilt, Cornelius
  • Vesey Conspiracy (1822)
  • Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
  • W
  • Walker, William
  • War of 1812
  • Warren, Josiah
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Washington, George
  • Waterpower
  • Wealth and Poverty
  • Webster, Daniel
  • Webster, Noah
  • West, Benjamin
  • Westward Expansion
  • Whaling
  • Wheat
  • Whig Party
  • Whiskey Rebellion
  • Whitney, Eli
  • Whittier, John Greenleaf
  • Willard, Emma Hart
  • William and Mary, College of
  • Wilmot Proviso (1846)
  • Women, Elite
  • Women, Middle-Class
  • Women, Slave
  • Women, Working-Class
  • Women's Rights Movement
  • Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
  • Workingmen's Party
  • Wright, Fanny
  • X
  • XYZ Affair
  • Y
  • Yale University
  • Young, Brigham
  • Primary Documents
  • Federalist No. 10, On Factions (1787)
  • The Anti-Federalist Papers, Centinel IV (1787)
  • Washington Accepts the Presidency, Report to the Continental Congress (1789)
  • The Journal of Francis Asbury, Excerpt (1791)
  • Report on Manufactures, Alexander Hamilton (1791)
  • The Apprentice System in America, Excerpt from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1793)
  • Eleventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1795)
  • American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons, Excerpt (1796)
  • George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
  • The Second Kentucky Resolution (1799)
  • The Life of Washington, by Mason Locke Weems, Excerpt (1800)
  • On the Scene at a Kentucky Revival (1801)
  • Marbury v. Madison (1803)
  • Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1804)
  • The Hamilton-Burr Duel (1804)
  • The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Excerpts (1805)
  • The First Steamboat Sets Sail, Letter by Robert Fulton (1807)
  • “We Listen to the Voice of the Great Spirit,” Remarks by Tenskwatawa (1808)
  • Knickerbocker's History of New York, by Washington Irving, Excerpt (1809)
  • “The White People Have No Right to Take the Land,” Speech by Tecumseh (1810)
  • “I Prefer War to Submission,” Speech by Representative Felix Grundy (1811)
  • Objections to the War of 1812, Speech by Daniel Webster (1812)
  • “The Benefits of Colonization,” by Robert Goodloe Harper (1817)
  • McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
  • The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (The Jefferson Bible), Excerpt (1820)
  • “Thanatopsis,” by William Cullen Bryant (1821)
  • The Burning of Washington, an Eyewitness Account (1821)
  • “A Visit from Saint Nicholas,”by Clement Clark Moore (1823)
  • Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
  • “The Hunters of Kentucky,” Andrew Jackson Campaign Song (1824)
  • Lafayette Visits Bunker Hill, Welcoming Remarks (1824)
  • Proper Parenting, Diary of Susan Mansfield Huntington (1826)
  • Cherokee Progress, Address by Elias Boudinot (1826)
  • Webster's Dictionary, Excerpts (1828)
  • “South Carolina Exposition and Protest,” by John C. Calhoun (1828)
  • The Inauguration of Andrew Jackson, A Firsthand Account by Margaret Bayard Smith (1829)
  • Conditions on a Slave Ship, Description by the Reverend Robert Walsh (1829)
  • “All Men Are Sinners,” Sunday School Text (1830)
  • “Wade in the Water,” Slave Spiritual (1830)
  • Tom Thumb Races a Horse, Eyewitness Account by John Latrobe (1830)
  • Inaugural Editorial, The Liberator, by William Lloyd Garrison (1831)
  • The Removal and Plunder of the Cherokee, A Firsthand Account (1831)
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner, by Thomas Ruffin Gray, Excerpt (1831)
  • Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
  • “Jump Jim Crow,” Minstrel Song (1832)
  • The Black Man's Fourth of July, Address by Peter Osborne (1832)
  • The Founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Recounted by Richard Allen (1833)
  • Davy Crockett Kills a Bear, from A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)
  • On Revivals of Religion, Sermon by Charles Grandison Finney (1835)
  • A Visit to San Francisco, Excerpt from Two Years before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1835)
  • How to Conduct a Newspaper, Editorial in the New York Herald (1836)
  • The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, Excerpt (1836)
  • The Battle of the Alamo, as Recounted by a Survivor (1836)
  • Obituary of James Madison, Connecticut Observer (1836)
  • “Because They Are Black,” by William Lloyd Garrison (1837)
  • “The American Scholar,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Excerpt (1837)
  • “A Lecture to Young Men on Chastity,” by Sylvester Graham, Excerpt (1838)
  • Wage Slavery, Excerpt from The Savage, by Piomingo (1838)
  • The “Revolting and Audacious” Amistad Trial, New York Herald (1839)
  • The Americans and the Romans, Excerpt from Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville (1840)
  • On the “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” Campaign, Letter by James Buchanan (1840)
  • A Treatise on Domestic Economy, by Catharine Beecher, Excerpt
  • Anti-Mormonism, Letter by John Cook Bennett (1842)
  • Visit to a New York Prostitute, Excerpt from The Journal of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1843)
  • “The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe, Excerpt (1843)
  • Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, by George Catlin, Excerpt (1844)
  • Life in the Lowell Mills, Letter by Harriet Farley (1844)
  • The State of American Jewry, The Occident and American Jewish Advocate (1844)
  • The Success of the Telegraph, Letter by Samuel F.B. Morse (1844)
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Excerpt (1845)
  • The Rules of Baseball, by Alexander J. Cartwright (1845)
  • Opposition to the Mexican-American War, Letter by Frederick Douglass (1846)
  • The Donner Party Makes a Grim Decision, A Contemporary Account (1847)
  • The Proper Use of Ether, by William T.G. Morton (1847)
  • Support for the Mexican-American War, Letter by James Buchanan (1847)
  • Education as a Great Equalizer, Report by Horace Mann (1848)
  • “Oh! Susanna,” Song by Stephen Foster (1848)
  • Soldiering in the Mexican-American War, A Letter Home (1848)
  • The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
  • Opposition to the Seneca Falls Convention, Mechanic's Advocate, Albany, New York (1848)
  • On Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau, Excerpt (1849)
  • “Powder, Not Prayer”: A View of Native Americans (1849)
  • Prospecting for Gold in California, A Firsthand Account (1849)
  • The Drunkard, Temperance Play by W.H. Smith, Excerpt (1850)
  • “The Art of Money-Getting,” by P.T. Barnum (1850)
  • Traveling the Underground Railroad, Excerpt from Reminiscences of Levi Coffin (1850)
  • On a Whale Hunt in the Pacific (1850)
  • Speech to the U.S. Senate in Favor of the Compromise of 1850, by Henry Clay (1850)
  • Jenny Lind in America, Advertisements, New York Herald (1850)
  • “November Fashions,” Godey's Lady's Book (1850)
  • Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, Excerpt (1851)
  • Report on Indian Affairs (1851)
  • The King of the Sea, by Ned Buntline, Excerpt (1852)
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Excerpt (1852)
  • Response to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Southern Press Review (1852)
  • Argument for Slavery, Excerpt from Sociology for the South, by George Fitzhugh (1854)
  • On “Slave Power,” Editorial, The National Era (1854)
  • Life on a Cotton Plantation, Excerpt from Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup (1855)
  • Developments in Science, Excerpts from Scientific American (1855)
  • Objections to African Colonization, Letter to Frederick A. Douglass (1855)
  • “Song of Myself,” by Walt Whitman, Excerpt (1855)
  • Opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Letter by Abraham Lincoln (1855)
  • The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
  • Anthony Burns Returned to Virginia, an Eyewitness Report (1856)
  • An American View of Japanese Culture, Commodore Matthew C. Perry (1856)
  • “The Crime Against Kansas,” Speech to the U.S. Senate by Senator Charles Sumner (1856)
  • The Whipping of Charles Sumner, Charleston Mercury (1856)
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
  • Northern Response to the Dred Scott Decision, New York Tribune (1857)
  • Southern Response to the Dred Scott Decision, Richmond Enquirer (1857)
  • McGuffey's Eclectic Reader, Excerpts (1857)
  • The New York Debut of Edwin Booth, Theater Review, The New York Times (1857)
  • Heading Off Fraudulent Votes, Letter by Abraham Lincoln (1858)
  • The Demoralizing Effects of Prizefighting, Editorial, The New York Times (1858)
  • Slave Auction in Savannah, A Newspaper Account (1859)
  • Interview with Brigham Young (1859)
  • John Brown's Final Speech (1859)
  • The Impact of John Brown's Raid, Editorial, Raleigh Register (1859)
  • “Lincoln and Liberty,” Song (1860)
  • The Secession of South Carolina, A Firsthand Account (1860)
  • The Attack on Fort Sumter, The New York Times (1861)
  • Chronologies
  • African Americans and Slavery
  • Art, Literature, and Culture
  • Economy, Business, and Labor
  • Expansion and Exploration
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Native Americans
  • Politics and Government
  • Reform
  • Religion
  • Science and Technology
  • Glossary
  • Master Bibliography
  • Books and Articles
  • Web Sites