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Antebellum period
Basics to get you started

“The Immediate Cause of the Civil War,” an introduction

Imagining the West, territorial expansion, and the politics of slavery

John Brown’s “tragic prelude” to the U.S. Civil War

The Mexican-American War

The Missouri Compromise and the dangerous precedent of appeasement

Nativism, immigration, and the Know-Nothing party
Works of Art
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Artists

Robert Mills and Lietenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Washington Monument, completed 1884, granite and marble, Washington, D. C