Early Republic and Antebellum America
Early Republic and Antebellum America
Editor: Bates, Christopher
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
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ISBN: 978-0-7656-8126-3
Category: History - United States -- History
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Table of Contents
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.
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