The nation comes of age : a people's history of the ante-bellum years. Vol. 4

A History Of America From 1826 To 1861. The Election Of 1828 -- President Andrew Jackson -- The Webster-hayne Debate -- Black Hawk's War -- Nullification -- Jackson And The Bank -- The Indian Removal -- Jackson At Bay -- Jackson Vindicated -- Tocqueville's America -- The Panic Of 1837 -- Texas Becomes A Bone Of Contention -- The Mexican War -- Visitors -- Hell In Harness -- The Near West -- A Modest Competence -- The Fur West -- Jedediah Smith -- A Trapper's Life -- The Southwest -- John Charles Fremont -- The Taking Of California -- The Gold Rush -- The Northwest -- Religion -- Converting The Heathen -- The Mormons -- This Huge Misery: Slave Life In The South -- The Church Of Abolition -- Free Blacks -- Utopian Communities -- Reform -- The Women Immigration -- Urban Life -- Entertainment -- High Society -- The Devil Is In The People -- Technology -- The Economy -- Education -- The Kindly Killers -- Home Life -- Work And Nature -- American Character -- American Art -- American Originals -- American Literature: The Precursors -- People's Poetry -- Breaking Out -- The Darker Side -- The Historians -- The United States And The World -- The New Politics -- The Republicans -- Bleeding Kansas -- Lincoln Reenters Politics -- A Decision Deferred -- The Lincoln-douglas Debates -- Way Out West -- John Brown -- The Election Of 1860 -- War. Page Smith. Volume Four Of The Author's History Of The United States. Includes Index. A comprehensive history of this nation's formative years discusses the successes and failures of the era's important personalities--Jackson, J. Q. Adams, Webster, Calhoun, Clay, and Lincoln--and covers all the major events and developments