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By the 1850s, slavery and cotton had become so intertwined that the very idea of change—be it crop diversity, antislavery ideologies, economic diversification, or the increasingly staggering cost of purchasing and maintaining slaves—became anathema to the southern economic and cultural identity.

Between 1834 and 1836, a combination of high cotton prices, freely available foreign and domestic credit, and an infusion of specie (“hard” currency in the form of gold and silver) from Europe spurred a sustained boom in the American economy.

The cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney, significantly increased the demand for slave labor in the South.

Manifest Destiny denied the right of Americans to move westward.

What was one of the main factors that contributed to the rise of the Whig Party in the 1830s?

Mid-nineteenth century reformers found common ground in the struggle to create a new moral order based on the ideals of all of the following EXCEPT

Henry Clay helped to broker the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise tariff of 1833, and the Compromise of 1850.

Who published the Book of Mormon in early 1830 and organized the Church of Christ (later renamed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) in upstate New York a short time later?

In Congress, Whigs and Democrats joined forces in 1836 to pass an unprecedented restriction on freedom of political expression known as ____________________, prohibiting all discussion of abolitionist petitions in the House of Representatives.

Antebellum Americans joined reform societies largely to