Kelley - Adams County

Introduction -- Chronology of the Antebellum Period -- About the Authors -- Abolition (Abolitionists) -- Abortion Among Female Slaves -- Adams, John Quincy -- African Colonization -- Agricultural Products -- Agriculture -- Alabama -- Alamo (Mission of San Antonio De Bajar) -- American System -- Amistad (Supreme Court Decision) -- Amusements and Diversions -- Antebellum South -- Anti-Masonic Party -- Architecture -- Arkansas -- Atlantic Slave Trade -- Bacon and Pork -- Bank of the United States -- Banking Institutions -- Barkesdale, William -- Bell, John -- Benjamin, Judah P. -- Benton, Thomas Hart -- Birney, James G. -- Black Anti-Slavery Activists -- Black Codes -- Black Hawk War of 1832 -- Black Republicanism -- Black Slaveowners -- Bleeding Kansas -- Breckinridge, John C. -- Brooks, Preston S. -- Brown, John -- Brown, William Wells -- Buchanan, James -- Buying and Selling Slaves -- Calhoun, John C. -- Catholics -- Charities -- Charleston, South Carolina -- Chesnut, Mary Boykin -- Children Born As Slaves -- Clay, Cassius M. -- Clay, Henry -- Cobb, Howell -- Compromise of 1850 -- Confederate Government -- Constitution (U.S. Warship Known As Old Iron-Sides) -- Constitutional Convention -- Constitutional Interpretation -- Cooper, Thomas -- Cotton -- Cotton Gin -- County Government -- Courtship and Marriage -- Creole -- Crockett, David Davy -- Davis, Jefferson -- Davis, Varina Howell -- Delaware -- Democratic Party (Democrats) -- Douglas, Stephen A. -- Douglass, Frederick -- Dueling (Duelists) -- Eaton, Peggy -- Education -- Emancipation -- Emmett, Daniel Decatur -- Epidemics -- Erosion of the Soil -- Executive Branch/Presidency -- Extension of Slavery Into the Territories -- Fashion -- Fear of Slave Revolts -- Federal Laws Governing Slavery -- Fillmore, Millard -- Fire-Eaters -- Fitzhugh, George -- Flatboats and Keelboats -- Florida -- Food -- Food Preservation -- Force Bill -- Foster, Abby Kelley -- Foster, Stephen Collins -- Free Blacks (Freemen) -- Free Labor -- Free States -- Fremont, John Charles -- Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 -- Gadsden Purchase of 1853 -- Gag Rule -- Gambling -- Garnet, Henry Highland -- Garrison, William Lloyd -- Geography -- Georgia -- Grimke, Angelina (1805-1879) and Sarah -- Hamilton, James A. -- Hammond, James H. -- Hampton, Wade -- Harrison, William Henry -- Hayne, Robert Y. -- Helper, Hinton Rowan -- Hemings, Sally -- Holiday Celebrations -- Horseracing -- Hotels -- Household Furnishings -- Houston, Samuel -- Immigration -- Indian Relations With Slaves -- Indian Removal -- Internal Improvements at Federal Expense -- Inventions -- Jackson, Andrew -- Jackson, Rachel Donelson -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 -- Kemble, Fanny -- Kentucky -- Kinship -- Lafayette, Marquis Deland Speculation -- Lee, Robert E. -- Legislative Branch/Congress -- Lemmon Case -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Lind, Jenny -- Literary Development -- Livestock -- Louisiana -- Louisiana Purchase -- Lowndes, William -- Madison, Dolley Payne -- Madison, James -- Mammy -- Manifest Destiny -- Marshall, John -- Maryland -- Mason-Dixon Line -- Mccord, Louisa Susan Cheves -- Mcduffie, George -- Medicine -- Mercer, Charles Fenton -- Mexican War of 1846 -- Military Education -- Militia -- Minstrel Shows -- Miscegenation -- Mississippi -- Mississippi River -- Missouri -- Missouri Compromise of 1820 -- Modernization -- Monroe, James -- Montgomery, Alabama -- Natchez Trace -- Nativists -- Negro Seaman Controversy -- New Orleans -- New Orleans, Battle Of -- Newspapers -- North Carolina -- Nullification -- Nullification Convention of 1832 -- Office Holding -- Olmsted, Frederick Law -- Oregon Territory -- Ostend Manifesto -- Overseers (Slave Drivers) -- Painters -- Panics (Economic Depressions) -- Parker, Joseph P. -- Petigru, James L. -- Photography -- Pickens, Francis W. -- Pierce, Franklin -- Pinckney, Henry L. -- Plantation Economy -- Plantation Mistress -- Plantations -- Planter Aristocracy -- Poe, Edgar Allan -- Poinsett, Joel R. -- Polk, James K. -- Poor Whites -- Popular Sovereignty -- Prostitution -- Protestantism -- Punishment of Slaves -- Purvis, Robert -- Quarreling -- Quitman, John A. -- Race Relations -- Railroads -- Randolph, John -- Raw Materials -- Reading -- Reform Movements -- Religion and Religious Revivalism -- Republican Party -- Rhett, Robert B. -- Richmond -- Riverboats -- Rivers -- Roads -- Romanticism -- Ruffin, Edmund -- Rural Cemetery Movement -- Scott, Dred (Dred Scott Decision) -- Scott, Winfield -- Sea Islands Plantations -- Seabrook, Whitemarsh Benjamin -- Secession (Secessionists) -- Sectional Disputes (Sectional Interests) -- Sequoyah -- Seward, William H. -- Simms, William Gilmore -- Slave Burial -- Slave Clothing -- Slave Courtship and Marriage -- Slave Dwellings -- Slave Escapes -- Slave Food -- Slave Music -- Slave Narratives -- Slave Patrols -- Slave Religion -- Slave States -- Slavery -- Slaves-Gang Labor -- Slaves-Hired Out -- Slaves-Task Labor -- South Carolina -- South Carolina Association -- Southern Hospitality -- Specie -- Spoils System -- States Rights -- Stephens, Alexander H. -- Stowe, Harriet Beecher -- Suffrage -- Sugar (Sugarcane) -- Sumner, Charles -- Supreme Court of the United States -- Taney, Roger B. -- Tappan, Arthur (1786-1865) and Lewis (1788-1873): Abolitionists -- Tariffs (Tariff of 1828) -- Taylor, Zachary -- Teachers -- Temperance -- Tennessee -- Test Bond Case -- Texas -- Texas, Annexation of -- Theater -- Three-Fifths Compromise -- Tocqueville, Alexis De -- Toombs, Robert A. -- Townships -- Transportation -- Travel and Vacations -- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) -- Tubman, Harriet -- Turnbull, Robert J. -- Turner, Nat -- Tyler, John -- Uncle Toms Cabin -- Underground Railroad -- Urbanization -- Value of Slaves -- Van Buren, Martin -- Vesey, Denmark (Denmark Vesey Conspiracy) -- Victorianism in America -- Virginia -- Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions -- War Hawks -- War of 1812 -- Washington, Dc -- Webster, Daniel -- Webster-Hayne Debate -- Westward Movement -- Whig Party (Whigs) -- Wilmot Proviso -- Wise, Henry Alexander -- Womens Rights (Womens Suffrage) -- Wool -- Yancey, William L. -- Yeoman Tradition -- Young, Brigham -- Zanes Teace.;Alphabetical entries present the culture, history, and key figures of the American South in the half-century before the Civil War.