The Political Economy of Slavery Emerges: How did the Chesapeake region handle the problem of labor supply with African slavery? Why did women achieve a "position of relative power" in this environment?

- "a new era of american politics began with jackson's election in 1828, but it also completed a grand social experiment begun by the american revolution. nevertheless, jacksonian democracy represented a provocative blending of the best and worst qualities of american society."

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a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”