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Origins of the American Civil War
Abolitionism in the United StatesOn the 18th of February 1688, four men gathered in a house on Germantown Avenue. Francis Daniel Pastorius and three brothers signed a two-page document…
Missouri CompromiseIn 1819, the United States stood on a precipice that no one had anticipated. The Era of Good Feelings, associated with President James Monroe's…
Nullification crisisIn 1787, the United States Constitution was written with a tension between state and federal power that would never fully resolve.
Origins of the American Civil WarIn 1787, the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia to draft a document that would never use the word slavery. Yet the resulting text embedded the…