written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one (Animal Farm).

a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.

The Freeport Doctrine attempted to reconcile:

Jackson believed that the president:

Jacksonian Democracy is best described as:

In Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), the Supreme Court ruled that:

Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860 primarily because:

The Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858 focused heavily on:

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was originally called to: