During the Second Great Awakening, workingmen and -women were mostly drawn to the preaching of which Christian denomination?

Why did slave owners dominate politics in southern states before the Civil War?

Why were house slaves among the most feared by owners in the South in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Why did the Whigs add Buffalo Congressman Millard Fillmore as a candidate for vice president in the 1848 campaign?

Why did nineteenth-century slaves embrace evangelical Protestant denominations such as the Baptists and the Methodists?

Which business was instrumental in the formation of the antislavery movement in the nineteenth century?

Approximately when did the 12 bar blues form using I, IV, V chords come into existence?

What did the artists of the Hudson River School have in common with the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson?

During the 1830s and 1840s, at what age were slaves on southern plantations put to work full time?

How did charitable organizations try to address the issue of poverty in the 1840s and 1850s?