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The history of the United States from 1815 to 1849—also called the Middle Period, the Antebellum Era, or the Age of Jackson—involved westward expansion across the American continent, the proliferation of suffrage to nearly all white men, and the rise of the Second Party System of politics between Democrats and Whigs.
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. online; Charles Sellers. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
The United States of America was formed after thirteen British colonies in North America declared independence from the British Empire on July 4, 1776. In the Lee Resolution , passed by the Second Continental Congress two days prior, the colonies resolved that they were free and independent states.
August 9 – The abolitionist Free Soil Party is founded by former president, Martin Van Buren in Buffalo, New York. August 14 – Oregon Territory is established. August 19 – California Gold Rush : The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States that there is a gold rush in California (although the rush started in ...
Adams, James Truslow, ed. Dictionary of American History (5 Vols. 1940) Kutler, Stanley I. ed. Dictionary of American History (3rd Edition 10 Volumes, 2003) Martin, Michael. Dictionary of American History (Littlefield, Adams 1989) Morris. Richard, ed. Encyclopedia of American History (7th ed. 1996) Purvis, Thomas L.
Oxford University Press released What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 in hardcover in 2007, selling it at a retail price of $35 (USD, equivalent to $51 in 2023). Its dust jacket displayed imagery from a historical Whig political banner, depicting a bald eagle at the summit of a rocky outcropping dividing the image ...
Lilian Handlin. Harvard and Göttingen, 1815. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 95, (1983), pp. 67–87; Charles E. Kinzer. The Band of Music of the First Battalion of Free Men of Color and the Siege of New Orleans, 1814–1815. American Music, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 348–369
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...