The Early Republic and Antebellum America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History

Abolitionist and Antislavery Movements

Adams, Abigail (1744–1818)

Adams, John (1735–1826)

Adams, John Quincy (1767–1848)

Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)

African Colonization

African Methodist Episcopal Church

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Aging and the Elderly

Agriculture

Alamo, Battle of the

Alcohol and Temperance

Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)

Amistad Incident

Anthony, Susan B. (1820–1906)

Anti-Federalists

Anti-Masonic Party

Architecture

Army, U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers, U.S.

Aroostook War

Art, Fine

Art, Folk

Asbury, Francis (1745–1816)

Ashley, William Henry (ca. 1778–1838)

Astor, John Jacob (1763–1848)

Astor Place Riot

Atchison, David Rice (1807–1886)

Atlanta, Georgia

Audubon, John James (1785–1851)

Austin, Stephen F. (1793–1836)

Baltimore, Maryland

Bancroft, George (1800–1891)

Bank of the United States

Bankruptcy and Insolvency

Banks and Banking

Banneker, Benjamin (1731–1806)

Baptists

Barbary Wars

Barnum, P.T. (1810–1891)

Beecher, Catharine (1800–1878)

Beecher, Henry Ward (1813–1887)

Bennett, James Gordon (1795–1872)

Benton, Thomas Hart (1782–1858)

Bible

Bill of Rights

Birney, James Gillespie (1792–1857)

Birth and Childbearing

Black Hawk War

Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821–1910)

Bleeding Kansas

Boone, Daniel (1734–1820)

Booth, Edwin (1833–1893)

Boston, Massachusetts

Breckinridge, John C. (1821–1875)

British Americans

Brook Farm

Brown, Charles Brockden (1771–1810)

Brown, John (1800–1859)

Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)

Buchanan, James (1791–1868)

Buffalo, New York

Bulfinch, Charles (1763–1844)

Buntline, Ned (1821–1886)

Burns, Anthony (1834–1862)

Burr, Aaron (1756–1836)

Cabinet, Presidential

Calhoun, John C. (1782–1850)

California

Canada, Relations with

Canals

Caroline Affair

Carson, Kit (1809–1868)

Cass, Lewis (1782–1866)

Catholicism

Channing, William Ellery (1780–1842)

Charity and Philanthropy

Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837)

Charleston, South Carolina

Chase (Samuel), Impeachment of

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)

Chicago, Illinois

Children and Child Rearing

China, Relations with

Chinese Americans

Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)

Christiana Riot

Cincinnati, Ohio

Cities and Urban Life

Clay, Henry (1777–1852)

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850)

Clinton, George (1739–1812)

Clocks and Clock Manufacturing

Clothing and Fashion

Coal

Cole, Thomas (1801–1848)

Colonization, African

Colt, Samuel (1814–1862)

Columbia University

Compromise of 1850

Congregationalists

Congress, U.S.

Constitution, U.S.

Constitutions, State

Convention of 1818

Cooper, James Fenimore (1789–1851)

Corn

Corporations

Cotton

Creoles

Crimean War, Impact of

Crittenden Compromise (1860)

Crockett, Davy (1786–1836)

Cuba, Relations with

Cumberland Road

Dance and Dancing

Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)

Davis, Jefferson (1808–1889)

Death and Dying

Decatur, Stephen (1779–1820)

Deere, John (1804–1886)

Delany, Martin R. (1812–1885)

Democratic Party

Democratic-Republican Party

Disciples of Christ

Dix, Dorothea (1802–1887)

Donner Party

Dorr Rebellion

Douglas, Stephen A. (1813–1861)

Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895)

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

Dueling

Dwight, Timothy (1752–1817)

Eaton, Peggy (1799–1879)

Education and Schools

Election of 1796

Election of 1800

Election of 1824

Election of 1828

Election of 1840

Election of 1860

Elliott, Jesse Duncan (1782–1845)

Embargo Act (1807)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–1882)

Entrepreneurs

Environment and Nature, Views of

Epidemics

Episcopalians

Erie Canal

Everett, Edward (1794–1865)

Federalist Party

Female Reform Movement

Filibustering

Fillmore, Millard (1800–1874)

Finney, Charles Grandison (1792–1875)

Fishing

Fletcher v. Peck (1810)

Food and Diet

Foreign Trade

Forrest, Edwin (1806–1872)

Fort Sumter, Attack on

Forty-Eighters

Foster, Stephen (1826–1864)

Fourierism

France, Relations with

Franklin Institute

Fraternal Societies

Free Blacks, Business and Economy

Free Blacks, Life and Culture

Free Soil Movement and Party

Freemasonry

Freeport Doctrine

Frémont, John C. (1813–1890)

French Americans

French Revolution, Impact of

Freneau, Philip (1752–1832)

Fries's Rebellion

Fugitive Slave Laws (1793 and 1850)

Fuller, Margaret (1810–1850)

Fulton, Robert (1765–1815)

Fur Trade

Furniture and Furnishings

Gabriel's Rebellion

Gadsden Purchase (1853)

Gag Rule

Gallatin, Albert (1761–1849)

Gambling

Games and Toys

Garrison, William Lloyd (1805–1879)

Gender Roles

Genet Affair

German Americans

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

Gottschalk, Louis Moreau (1829–1869)

Graham, Sylvester (1794–1851)

Great Britain, Relations with

Great Lakes

Great Migration

Great Plains

Greeley, Horace (1811–1872)

Greenough, Horatio (1805–1852)

Grimké,Sarah (1792–1873), and Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

Guns and Weapons

Haitian Revolution, Impact of

Hale, John Parker (1806–1873)

Hamilton, Alexander (1757?–1804)

Harpers Ferry Raid

Harrison, William Henry (1773–1841)

Hartford Convention

Harvard University

Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804–1864)

Hemp

Hewlett, James (ca. 1789–ca. 1840)

Holidays and Observances

Horses

Houston, Sam (1793–1863)

Howe, Elias (1819–1867)

Howe, Samuel Gridley (1801–1876)

Hunting

Immigration and Immigrants

Industrialization

Irish Americans

Iron and Steel

Irving, Washington (1783–1859)

Jackson, Andrew (1767–1845)

Japan, Relations with

Jay, John (1745–1829)

Jay Treaty (1794)

Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826)

Jews

Johnson, Richard Mentor (1780–1850)

Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823)

Judiciary Act (1789)

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

Kearny, Stephen W. (1794–1848)

Labor and Unions

Lafayette's Tour

Laffite, Jean (ca. 1782–1823)

Lamy, Jean-Baptiste (1814–1888)

Larkin, Thomas O. (1802–1858)

Latin America, Relations with

Latrobe, Benjamin (1764–1820)

Law, Business and Labor

Law, Criminal

Law, Property and Contract

Law Enforcement

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Lexington, Kentucky

Liberty Party

Libraries

Library of Congress

Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Lind, Jenny (1810/1820–1887)

Literature

Livestock, Dairy Farming, and Ranching

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882)

Los Angeles, California

Louisiana Purchase (1803)

Lovejoy, Elijah P. (1802–1837)

Lowell, James Russell (1819–1891)

Lowell System

Lyceums

Macready, William Charles (1793–1873)

Madison, Dolley (1768–1849)

Madison, James (1751–1836)

Manifest Destiny

Mann, Horace (1796–1859)

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Marine Corps, U.S.

Market Revolution

Marriage and Divorce

Marshall, John (1755–1835)

Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816)

Massachusetts Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842)

Maury, Matthew Fontaine (1806–1873)

McCormick, Cyrus (1809–1884)

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

Medicine and Health

Melville, Herman (1819–1891)

Mental Illness

Merchants

Methodists

Mexican-American War

Mexican Americans

Mexico, Relations with

Mid-Atlantic

Midwest

Military Academy, U.S.

Military and Naval Technology

Millennialism and Adventism

Mining

Minstrelsy

Missionaries and Missionary Work

Missions of California

Mississippi River

Missouri Compromise (1820)

Money and Currency

Monroe, James (1758–1831)

Monroe Doctrine

Mormons

Morse, Samuel F.B. (1791–1872)

Morton, William T.G. (1819–1868)

Mott, Lucretia (1793–1880)

Mount Holyoke College

Music, Classical

Music, Folk and Popular

Music, Sacred

Napoleonic Wars, Impact of

National Debt

National Road

Nationalism

Native American—African American Relations

Native American—U.S. Government Relations

Native Americans, California

Native Americans, Great Plains

Native Americans, Mid-Atlantic

Native Americans, Midwest

Native Americans, New England

Native Americans, Pacific Northwest

Native Americans, South

Native Americans, Southwest

Nativism and the Know-Nothing Party

Naturalization Acts (1790s)

Naval Academy, U.S.

Navy, U.S.

Neutrality Act (1794)

New England

New Orleans, Louisiana

New York City, New York

Newport, Rhode Island

Newspapers and Periodicals

Northwest Territory

Notre Dame, University of

Nullification Crisis

Oberlin College

Ohio River

Oneida Commune

Oregon Trail

Osceola (ca. 1804–1838)

Ostend Manifesto (1854)

O'Sullivan, John L. (1813–1895)

Owen, Robert (1771–1858)

Pacific Northwest

Paine, Thomas (1737–1809)

Panic of 1819

Panic of 1837

Panic of 1857

Parker, Theodore (1810–1860)

Peale, Charles Willson (1741–1827)

Peddlers

Perry, Matthew C. (1794–1858)

Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785–1819)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Phillips, Wendell (1811–1884)

Photography

Pierce, Franklin (1804–1869)

Pike, Zebulon M. (1779–1813)

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (1746–1825)

Pinckney's Treaty (1795)

Pinkerton, Allan (1819–1884)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Planters and Plantations

Poe, Edgar Allan (1809–1849)

Poetry

Polk, James K. (1795–1849)

Pony Express

Popular Culture

Population and Demographics

Postal Service, U.S.

Presbyterians

Presidency

Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)

Princeton University

Printing and Publishing

Prisons and Penitentiaries

Prostitution

Purvis, Robert (1810–1898)

Quakers

Railroads

Randolph, John (1773–1833)

Religion, African American

Religion, Native American

Republican Party

Rice

Richmond, Virginia

Ripley, George (1802–1880)

Roads and Turnpikes

Rocky Mountains

Roebling, John A. (1806–1869)

Ross, John (1790–1866)

Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)

Sabbatarianism and the Sabbath

Sacagawea (ca. 1788–1812)

San Francisco, California

Santa Fe Trail

Science and Technology

Scots-Irish Immigrants

Scott, Winfield (1786–1866)

Secession

Second Great Awakening

Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

Sequoyah (ca. 1776–ca. 1843)

Seton, Elizabeth Ann (1774–1821)

Seward, William H. (1801–1872)

Sex and Sexuality

Shakers

Shipbuilding

Shoemaking

Simms, William Gilmore (1806–1870)

Singer, Isaac (1811–1875)

Slater, Samuel (1768–1835)

Slave Patrols

Slave Trade, Domestic

Slave Trade, International

Slavery, Life and Culture

Slavery, Resistance to

Smith, Jedediah (1799–1831)

Smith, Joseph (1805–1844)

Smithsonian Institution

South, Lower

South, Upper

Southwest

Spain, Relations with

Spas and Gardens

Spiritualism

Spoils System

Sports and Recreation

St. Louis, Missouri

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815–1902)

Steam Engine

Steamboats and Steamships

Stewart, Maria W. (1803–1879)

Stone, Lucy (1818–1893)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811–1896)

Stuart, Gilbert (1755–1828)

Sumner, Charles (1811–1874)

Supreme Court, U.S.

Tammy Hall

Taney, Roger B. (1777–1864)

Tariffs

Taxation

Taylor, Zachary (1784–1850)

Tecumseh (ca. 1768–1813)

Telegraph

Tenskwatawa (ca. 1775–ca. 1836)

Texas

Textiles

Theater

Thoreau, Henry David (1817–1862)

Timber and Logging

Tobacco

Trade, Foreign

Trail of Tears

Transcendentalism

Transportation Revolution

Trumbull, John (1756–1843)

Truth, Sojourner (ca. 1797–1883)

Tubman, Harriet (ca. 1822–1913)

Turner Rebellion

Tyler, John (1790–1862)

Underground Railroad

Unitarians

University of Michigan

University of Pennsylvania

University of Virginia

Van Buren, Martin (1782–1862)

Vanderbilt, Cornelius (1794–1877)

Vesey Conspiracy (1822)

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798–1799)

Walker, William (1824–1860)

War of 1812

Warren, Josiah (1798–1874)

Washington, D.C.

Washington, George (1732–1799)

Waterpower

Wealth and Poverty

Webster, Daniel (1782–1852)

Webster, Noah (1758–1843)

Welfare

West, Benjamin (1738–1820)

Westward Expansion

Whaling

Wheat

Whig Party

Whiskey Rebellion

Whitney, Eli (1765–1825)

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807–1892)

Willard, Emma Hart (1787–1870)

William and Mary, College of

Wilmot Proviso (1846)

Women, Elite

Women, Middle-Class

Women as Reformers

Women, Slave

Women, Working-Class

Women's Rights Movement

Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

Workingmen's Party

Wright, Fanny (1795–1852)

XYZ Affair

Yale University

Young, Brigham (1801–1877)