- James Monroe; Era of Good Feelings
- Panic of 1819
- Settlement of the West
- Missouri compromise
- Foreign affairs: Canada, Florida, the Monroe Doctrine
- Election of 1824: end of Virginia dynasty
- Economic revolution
- Early railroads and canals
- Expansion of business
- Beginnings of factory system
- Early labor movement; women
- Social mobility; extremes of wealth
- The cotton revolution in the south
- Commercial agriculture
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