Democracy and its Discontents: The US from the Constitution to the Mexican War

1 Unit · Undergraduate

Between 1787 and 1848, the United States transformed from a precarious sliver of states to a transcontinental empire. Political participation rose alongside slavery, Indigenous expulsion, and America?s first capitalist ?millionaires.? From immigrants and farmers to sailors and sex workers, Americans embraced religion (and alcohol) like never before, along with politics, protest, and violence. Welcome to the world?s first modern democracy.