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Introductory Essay

 Expansion and Reform

Mini-Essays

"The Epic of Young America on the March": The Transportation Revolution Comes to Antebellum Tennessee  

Building Schools, Roads, and Bridges: Funding Public Projects in Antebellum Tennessee

Interpreting the Art of Western Expansion: Manifest Destiny on the March

1840s Political Cartoons

Powerpoints

Women in the Republic