In an effort to improve overland transportation, some states chartered companies to operate
turnpikesroads for which users had to pay a toll. The term came from the turnpikes, or gates,
that guarded entrances to the roads. Turnpike operators were supposed
In 1817, a newspaper in Boston described politics as entering an era of good feelings. The
Democratic Republican Party operated almost without opposition. In the election of 1820,
James Monroe won reelection as President by receiving almost all of the ele
As the presidential election of 1824 approached, two-term President James Monroe announced
that he would not seek a third term. His presidency had been marked by what appeared to be
general political harmony. There was only one major political party, and
Slavery, an American institution since colonial times, expanded across the South in the early
1800s with the growth of cotton farming. By 1830, from Maryland to Texas, some 2 million
Africans and African Americans were held as slaves in the United States.
By the mid-nineteenth century, cotton cultivation and slavery had spread across the Deep South
that is, through Florida and Alabama into Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. As the country
continued to expand, Americans faced a crucial question: Should slav
By the mid-nineteenth century, cotton cultivation and slavery had spread across the Deep South
that is, through Florida and Alabama into Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. As the country
continued to expand, Americans faced a crucial question: Should slav
When it comes to the Cold War many people have trouble defining the term. The Cold War can
be defined as an ideological state of tension between the United States and Soviet Union marked
by nuclear proliferation and indirect fighting. During the Cold War
