Shaping the Nation Before the Civil War
Links to Web Resources

• Washington's Farewell Address

• Election of 1796

• Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

• XYZ Affair

• Election of 1800

• Berlin Decree

• Embargo Act and Non-Intercourse Act

• Hamilton & Burr

• Louisiana Purchase

• Lewis & Clark

• War of 1812

• Monroe Doctrine

• Oregon Trail

• Erie Canal

• Jacksonian Democracy (includes the spoils system)

• Trail of Tears

• Nat Turner

• Manifest Destiny

• Texas Independence and Annexation

• Mexican War

• Battle of the Alamo

• Early Immigration

• Factories

• Unions

• Cotton

• The Cotton Gin

• California Goldrush

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

• Harpers Ferry

• Bleeding Kansas

• Underground Railroad

• Seneca Falls Convention
  
  
  Overview
   

  Sectional Conflict: Slavery, Sectionalism Sow the Seeds of War
  Outline of U. S. History
  U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs
  http://www.america.gov/st/educ-english/2008/April/20080407120703eaifas0.3017237.html
  
  History Resource Center:  US
  http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC?locID=s0002