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?

What limited the ability of southern yeomen farmers to challenge the political control of southern planters from the 1830s to the 1850s?

While American leaders considered the nation’s new capital a bold statement about republican virtue, visitors often described the city as

Which of the following elements from their history and culture provided Americans with a sense of a distinct national identity during the early republic?

What prompted slave owners in the South in the early nineteenth century to provide slaves sturdier housing, better clothing, and increased food allotments?

Why did the Maryland legislature tax the operations of the Second Bank of the United States in the early nineteenth century?

What did the spread of cotton gins across the South mean for southern slaves?