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Parent topics
- United States of America [r]: A country of North America, north of Mexico, south of Canada. [e]
- Second Party System [r]: Term used by historians and political scientists referring to the United States' political system from about 1828 to 1854. [e]
- U.S. Democratic Party, history [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. Republican Party, history [r]: Add brief definition or description
- slavery [r]: A social system in which people have legal rights of property ownership over others. [e]
Subtopics
Policies
- homestead act [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wilmot Proviso [r]: A proposal, advanced several times 1848-54 but never adopted, for the U.S. Congress to forbid the expansion of slavery into the Southwest. [e]
Prominent People
- Charles Francis Adams Sr. [r]: U.S. Politician and ambassador; member of political Adams family. [e]
- William Cullen Bryant [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Salmon P. Chase [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John P. Hale [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel Hoar [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Francis Kernan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Letcher [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Sumner [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Benjamin Tappan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Martin Van Buren [r]: (1782-1862) An American politician and President of the United States (1837-1841). [e]
- Walt Whitman [r]: (1819-92) American poet and essayist; wrote Leaves of Grass [e]
- Henry Wilson [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Free Soil Democrats [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Zachary Taylor [r]: (1784–1850) President of the United States from 1849 to 1850, led the U.S. army in the Mexican-American War. [e]
- Lewis Cass [r]: (1782-1866) U.S. politician from the state of Michigan. [e]
- Compromise of 1850 [r]: In U.S. history a series of laws intending to resolve pro-slavery/anti-slavery issues but yielded only greater conflict leading, eventually, to the U.S. Civil War. [e]
