The Political Revolution of the 1850s

• Introduction
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act: 1854
• Congressional Elections: 1850–1858
• Summary

• American History

• About American History
• The Development of Native American Culture to 1500
• European Exploration and Early Settlement 1492-1700
• The Struggle for Colonial Control of North America 1689-1763
• Population and Diversity in America: the Colonial Period
• Native American Tribes 1783
• The American Revolution
• Constitutionalism
• Territorial Expansion of the United States 1783-1853
• Alaska and Hawaii
• The War of 1812
• Jackson's Campaigns in Florida 1818
• Texas 1836
• The Mexican War
• The Spread of Cotton and of Slavery 1790-1860
• Compromises Over Slavery
• The Political Revolution of the 1850s
• The Presidential Election of 1860
• The U.S. Civil War, Part I
• U.S. Civil War, Part II
• Reconstruction
• Industrialization 1870-1930
• Population and Immigration 1800-1910
• The Political Revolution of the 1890s
• Toward Empire: Overseas Expansion 1865-1910
• World War I
• The Great Depression
• The Political Revolution of the 1930s
• World War II: The Pacific Theater
• World War II: The European Theater
• Cholera
• Polio
• Diphtheria
• Life Expectancy 1850-2000

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