Students use the indicated text and the internet to compare and contrast the North and South. They discuss the social and political implications of the two predominant economic systems (slavery and factory). They are introduced to the...

Read an original transcript, and view an image of a report on the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This legislation admitted Missouri and Maine as states into the Union.

The campaign of 1828 was heated and bitter. Read about the man who was elected, Andrew Jackson, his background, and the basis of his administration.