The California gold rush attracted a motley population consisting mostly of younger men.

British Prime Minister George Grenville followed a policy of salutary neglect toward the American colonies.

In the antebellum South, freed African Americans were

The practice of using the draft to raise an army

Most of the first immigrants to America were

Small-scale southern farmers were often

Which is true of Jackson’s presidency?

The American alliance with France stipulated that

Enlightenment thinking valued reason as a great virtue and embraced optimism about human progress.

At its beginning, most Americans in both the North and the South believed the Civil War would be over quickly.