Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Jacksonian democracy was a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that restructured a number of federal institutions. Originating with the seventh U.S. president , Andrew Jackson and his supporters, it became the nation's dominant political worldview for a generation.
Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. [4] His father was a farmer without much money. Mann was the great-grandson of Samuel Man. [5]From age ten to age twenty, he had no more than six weeks' schooling during any year, [6] but he made use of the Franklin Public Library, the first public library in America.
1904 depiction of an acquisitive and manipulative Standard Oil (founded by John D. Rockefeller) as an all-powerful octopus. Robber baron is a term first applied as social criticism by 19th century muckrakers and others to certain wealthy, powerful, and unethical 19th-century American businessmen.
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Boorstin, Daniel J. (1967). The Americans: The National Experience. Browning, Andrew H. (2019). The Panic of 1819: The First Great Depression. Clark, Christopher (2007). Social Change in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War. Genovese, Eugene D. (1976).
[18] [19] The papers dubbed him "Mr. Make-a-Lister" and, in combination with his memoirs published in 1890, entitled Society as I Have Found It, [20] further ostracized him from the "old guard", who valued their privacy in an era when the leaders of society were the equivalent of modern movie stars. [15]
In response to continued British interference with American shipping (including the practice of impressment of American sailors into the British Navy), and to British aid to American Indians in the Old Northwest, the Twelfth Congress—led by Southern and Western Jeffersonians—declared war on Britain in 1812. Westerners and Southerners were ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Pages in category "19th-century American people" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 322 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .