During the election of 1844:

The Republican party reflected a combination of all of the following groups EXCEPT:

Preston Brooks’s caning of Charles Sumner:

According to the author insight video on Slavery and the Civil War, the Ordinances of Secession of the various southern states make no reference to slavery as being a cause of their decision to secede from the Union.

In 1861, the majority of Americans envisioned what the Civil War would become in terms of its size, its scope, its duration, and the cost of over 700,000 lives.

According to the author video on Westward expansion, the most powerful motivation for people to move west was religion.

What position did both the Democrats and Whigs support in the 1852 presidential election?

At Petersburg:

The military death toll in the Civil War was roughly:

The Compromise of 1850 did not include