The United States is occupied during this…

The United States is occupied during this era with such internal conflicts as the Black Hawk War (1832), the forced removal of the Cherokee tribe to Indian Territory, and the long and costly second Seminole War (1835-42), while a border dispute with Canada flares up as the Indian Stream ”War”.

By 1825, more than thirty-six percent of all the enslaved people in the New World were in the southern United States.

Although slavery had been a divisive issue in the United States for decades, never before had sectional antagonism been so overt and threatening as it was in the Missouri crisis, but compromise measures appear to have settled the slavery-extension issue.

Low-level sectional conflict arises again, however, in response to the so-called Tariff of Abominations (1828).

The institution of slavery remains the nonpareil reform issue in the United States, however, and fuels such conflicts in Texas as the Fredonian Rebellion (1826-27) and the Texan War of Independence (1836).

In 1831 occurs the only effective, sustained slave rebellion in U.S. history, led by an enslaved African-American named Nat Turner (widely popularized by William Styron in his 1967 novel The Confessions of Nat Turner).

In the aftermath of the terror, a new wave of unrest spreads through the South, accompanied by corresponding fear among slaveholders and passage of more repressive legislation directed against both slaves and free blacks.

These measures are aimed particularly at restricting the education of blacks, their freedom of movement and assembly, and the circulation of inflammatory printed material.

Increased vigilance on the part of Southern authorities prevents the success of such bizarre episodes as Murrel's Uprising (1835).

The national financial panic of 1837 creates even greater unrest among U.S. farmers and workers, setting the stage for a new round of rebellion.