HIS 411 - Conflict, Reform and Expansion: America before the Civil War

HIS 220 or consent of instructor. (3).

Exploration of the major social, economic and political developments in the United States in the decades leading up to the Civil War. The market revolution; religion and reform; westward expansion; slavery and abolition; the origins and development of the second-party system; the politics of slavery. Offered infrequently.