WOMEN, REFORM AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Women could not vote, hold most public offices or enjoy equal legal status, yet they became central to reform. The...
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ABOLITION, THE PRESS AND THE RIGHT TO PETITION
new immediatist abolition movement demanded an end to slavery without gradual delay or compensation to enslavers. William Lloyd Garrison published...
Read MoreSLAVERY EXPANDS WITH DEMOCRACY
The Jacksonian era coincided with the rapid expansion of cotton slavery across Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and eastern Texas. Enslaved...
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THE BANK WAR
J ackson regarded the Second Bank of the United States as a dangerous concentration of financial privilege. The Bank was...
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250 TOP INDIAN AMERICANS
Leaving a mark with their contributions In this historic edition celebrating America@250, The Indian Panorama recognizes the extraordinary contributions of...
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REMOVAL: DEMOCRACY’S DARKEST POLICY
White settlement and cotton cultivation intensified pressure upon the homelands of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole peoples....
Read MoreTHE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE POWER
ackson treated the presidency as the only national office elected by all the people-meaning the eligible electorate-and therefore as an...
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THE RISE OF MASS DEMOCRACY
Democracy Expanded, Democracy Denied “American democracy grew wider for white men-and harsher for many people kept outside its promise. During...
Read MoreMISSOURI AND THE SECTIONAL LINE
As western territories sought statehood, the expansion of slavery became a national crisis. In 1819, Missouri applied for admission as...
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