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Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party.
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It was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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United States took Great Britain in war because the British attempts to restrict U.S. trade.
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The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland.
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This provided admission of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South.
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After narrowly losing to John Quincy Adams in the contentious 1824 presidential election, Jackson returned four years later to win redemption, soundly defeating Adams and becoming the nation's seventh president.
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An abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831.
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When South Carolina adopted the ordinance to nullify the tariff acts and label them unconstitutional.
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French sociologist and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville traveled to the United States in 1831 to study its prisons and returned with a wealth of broader observations that he codified in “Democracy in America” one of the most influential books of the 19th century.
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"Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow their own instincts and ideas.
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Dorothea Dix visited an East Cambridge jail and was appalled to see mentally ill women confined alongside hardened criminals. she embarked on a campaign to ensure humane treatment for the mentally ill in America. She began by documenting conditions in Massachusetts. She used her research to convince the legislature to enlarge the state mental institution in Worcester. She persuaded state governments around the country to assume responsibility for their mentally ill citizens.
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Frederick Douglass's purpose in writing his autobiography was not only to show the way in which slavery degraded slaves but also to show the way the institution of slavery degraded slave masters.
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Out of that first convention came a historic document, the 'Declaration of Sentiments,' which demanded equal social status and legal rights for women, including the right to vote.
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This new law forcibly compelled citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves.
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An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Written by noted Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, Walden is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance.
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This included twelve untitled poems, which were named in later editions.
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Scott sued his master's widow for his freedom on the grounds that he had lived as a resident of a free state and territory. He won his suit in a lower court, but the Missouri supreme court reversed the decision.
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This was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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He won the election faced against Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell.
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The war began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
