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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.
Hirano, Shigeo, et al. "The Growth of Campaign Advertising in the United States, 1880–1930." Journal of Politics 84.3 (2022): 1482–1496. Silbey, Joel H. Party Over Section: The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848 (2009), 205 pp. Silbey, Joel H. ed. A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents, 1837–1861 (Wiley Blackwell, 2014). 483 pp
Voters in United States territories, including American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands are ruled ineligible to vote in presidential elections. [11] Delaware ends lifetime disenfranchisement for people with felony convictions for most offenses but institutes a five-year waiting period. [62] 2001
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
May 3 – Drusilla Wilson, American temperance leader and Quaker pastor (died 1908) May 10 – Henry Bibb, author and abolitionist who was born a slave (died 1854) May 18 – Thomas S. Bocock, United States Congressman, Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives (died 1891) June 1 – Philip Kearny, United States Army officer ...
Americans are heading to the polls on Election Day after Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump made their final pitches to voters on Monday, the last full day of campaigning.
A History of the United States: Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815. University Press of America. ISBN 9780819189158. Collier, Christopher. Building a new nation : the Federalist era, 1789-1803 (1999) for middle schools; Finkelman, Paul, ed. (2001). Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. ISBN 9780684804989.