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?

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