HST 576 Market Democracy in America

Examines the social and political transformation of the United States in the first half of the 19th century, emphasizing how emerging faith in democracy, markets, Westward expansion, individual morality and gender-defined roles in public and private spheres, related to the simultaneous growth of slave labor, militant nationalism, industrial development, class distinctions, racial conflict and war with Mexico by the late 1840s.
Credits: 4

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