Monday, Oct 13, 2008

Chapter 12 Podcast The Pursuit of Perfection

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Some americans worried that the people were not yet completly fit to govern, but could be made so. this chapter discusses the wide varity of reform movements that arose between the War of 1812 and the civil War.

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Sunday, Oct 12, 2008

Chpater 11 Podcast Masters And Slaves

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In the South in the first half of the nineteenth century, an elite group on Whites dominated the society and made profit on the labor of Black slaves, who nonethless were able to develop a rich culture of their own.

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Sunday, Oct 05, 2008

Chapter 10 Podcast The Triumph of White Men's Democracy

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By the 1820, and 1830s the United States was a democratic society with notable limitations. Women and African Americans continued to be denied political and legal rights, and amoung white males the inequality between rich and poor grew wider.

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