Events That Changed America in the Nineteenth Century

JOHN E. FINDLING is coeditor of the Greenwood Press Events That Changed America series, which includes Events That Changed America in the Twentieth Century (1996), and coeditor of the Events That Changed the World series, which includes Events That Changed the World in the Twentieth Century (1995) and Events That Changed the World in the Nineteenth Century (1996). He is coeditor of Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement (Greenwood, 1996) and Statesmen Who Changed the World: A Biobibliographical Dictionary of Diplomacy (Greenwood, 1993), and editor of Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions (Greenwood, 1990). He is also series coeditor of the Greenwood Press Histories of the Modern Nations. Findling is author of Dictionary of American Diplomatic History (Greenwood, rev. ed., 1989) and Chicago's Great World Fairs (1994). He is Professor of history at Indiana Unversity Southeast.FRANK W. THACKERAY is coeditor of the Greenwood Press Events That Changed America series, which includes Events That Changed America in the Twentieth Century (1996), and coeditor of the Events That Changed the World series, which includes Events that Changed the World in the Twentieth Century (1995) and Events That Changed the World in the Nineteenth Century (1996). He is coeditor of Statesmen Who Changed the World: A Biobibliographical Dictionary of Diplomacy (Greenwood 1993) and author of Antecedents of Revolution: Alexander I and the Polish Congress Kingdom, 1815-1825 (Greenwood, 1980). He is also series coeditor of the Greenwood Press Histories of the Modern Nations. He is Professor of history at Indiana University Southeast.

• Illustrations, Preface The Louisiana Purchase, 1803 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Steven E. Siry The War of 1812 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Sally E. Hadden The Monroe Doctrine, 1823 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Peter G. Felten Jacksonian Democracy, 1828-1840 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Thomas C. Mackey Abolition, c. 1820s-1860 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Thomas Clarkin The War with Mexico, 1846-1848 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Donald A. Rakestraw The Civil War, 1861-1865 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Carl E. Kramer The Industrial Revolution, c. 1860s-1890s Introduction Interpretive Essay by Julia A. Woods The Closing of the Frontier, c. 1890s Introduction Interpretive Essay by Michael J. Devine The Spanish-American War, 1898-1901 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Henry E. Mattox Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Timeline Appendix C: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of State Index