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.

Abolitionist sentiment was widespread among white Southerners during the antebellum period.

John Quincy Adams believed that the United States was not a perpetual union, but rather a compact of sovereign states.

Many of the earliest women’s rights advocates began their activism by fighting __________________, including Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony.

The Declaration of Sentiments drawn up in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 asserted that

Congress passed a bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States in 1832, but Jackson vetoed it as unconstitutional.

Inspired by a strategy known as __________________, in the 1830s, young abolitionists believed they could convince slaveholders to voluntarily release their slaves by appealing to their sense of Christian conscience.

In the Jacksonian era, which is often correlated with a rise in democracy, northern African Americans were increasingly denied basic civil rights, including voting rights.

What financial institution’s closure contributed to the Panic of 1837, leading to a loss of confidence in the banking system?

Championed by prominent preachers like Lyman Beecher, this movement’s effort to curb the consumption of alcohol galvanized widespread support among the middle class.