10–17% of the AP exam. Key topics: Jeffersonian democracy and the Revolution of 1800, Louisiana Purchase and westward expansion, War of 1812: causes, conduct, and nationalistic aftermath, Era of Good Feelings and rise of sectionalism, Market Revolution: transportation (canals, railroads), manufacturing, and regional specialization, Jacksonian democracy and expansion of white male suffrage, Indian Removal Act (1830) and Trail of Tears, Second Great Awakening and antebellum reform movements, Abolitionism: Garrison, Douglass, and the slavery debate, Early women's rights movement (Seneca Falls Convention, 1848), Missouri Compromise (1820) and growing sectional tension.
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