1. Antebellum America

2. John Quincy Adams – 1767-1848

3. Henry Clay – 1797-1852

4. Daniel Webster – 1782-1852

5.  Andrew Jackson – 1767-1845

6.  Rachel Jackson – 1767-1828

7.  Jackson’s Inauguration 1829

8.  Peggy O’Neale & John Eaton

9.  John C. Calhoun – 1782-1850

10. Theodore Frelinghuysen – 1787-1862

11.  Trail of Tears

12.  Martin Van Buren – 1782-1862

14.  William Henry Harrison – 1773-1841

15.  John Tyler -- 1790-1862

16. The Peculiar Institution

21. Slave Music – African Origins

22. Slave Instruments

25. 19 th -Century Banjo and Guitar

26. One form of Resistance

27. Nat Turner – 1800-1831

28. Nat Turner’s Rebellion, August 1831

29. Antebellum Reform

30. Charles Grandison Finney – 1792-1875

31. Joseph Smith -- 1805-1844

32. William Miller – 1782-1849

33. Proudhon Pierre Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865

34. Fourier Charles Fourier, 1772-1837

35. New Harmony New Harmony, Indiana, 1825-1828

36. Oneida The Oneida Community, 1848-1878

37. Transcendentalism

38. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

39. Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862

40. Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

41. I have paid no poll tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. I wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar….They plainly did not know how to treat me, but behaved like persons who are underbred. In every threat and in every compliment there was a blunder; for they thought that my chief desire was to stand the other side of that stone wall. I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations, which followed them out again without let or hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous. As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

42. I learned this, at least, by my experiment, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

43. Abolitionism

44. Walker’s Appeal, 1830

45. William Lloyd Garrison — 1805-1879

46. Frederick Douglass—1818-1895

47. Wendell Phillips – 1811-1884

48. Harriet Tubman — 1821-1913

49. Feminism “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people”

50. Margaret Fuller -- 1810-1850

51. Angelina & Sarah Grimké

52. Sojourner Truth — 1797-1883

53. Lucretia Mott – 1793-1880 Elizabeth Cady Stanton — 1815-1902 Susan B. Anthony — 1820-1906

54. Other Reforms

55. Lowell Mill Weavers

56. Dorothea Dix – 1802-1887

57. Sylvester Graham — 1794-1851)

58. Horace Mann, 1796-1859

59. Manifest Destiny

60. The Alamo, March 6, 1836

61. James Knox Polk – 1795-1849

62. “Fifty-four Forty or Fight!”

64. Siege of Veracruz

65. General Winfield Scott

66. Zachary Taylor – 1784-1850

67. The Impending Crisis

69. Debating the Compromise of 1850

70. Millard Fillmore – 1800-1874

71. Franklin Pierce – 1804-1869

72. Harriet Beecher Stowe – 1811-1896

73. John Brown – 1800-1859

74. Bleeding Kansas - 1856

75. Brooks vs. Sumner – July 1856

76. James Buchanan – 1791-1868

77. Roger B. Taney Dred Scott

78. Lincoln-Douglas Debates – 1858

79. Harper’s Ferry, 1859

80. John Brown – the Harbinger of the Civil War