CLEP U.S. History I 062: Expanded White Male Suffrage and Mass Parties
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 12 | Lesson 12.1 From the 1810s through the 1830s, many states removed property requirements for white male voters. New western constitutions often began with broad white manhood suffrage, and older states revised rules under political pressure. Presidential electors were increasingly chosen by voters rather than legislatures. Turnout rose […]
CLEP U.S. History I 061: Cotton Expansion, Forced Migration, and Slavery
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 11 | Lesson 11.6 Short-staple cotton became highly profitable after the cotton gin made seed removal faster, but the machine did not reduce slavery. It made wider inland cultivation profitable and increased demand for land and enslaved labor. Global textile demand, fertile soil, credit, steamboats, and Native dispossession produced […]
