Federal authorities raid Los Angeles-area casino. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal agents from several agencies raided the Bicycle Hotel & Casino in a Los Angeles suburb on Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation, forcing its temporary closure, officials said.
Antebellum Period summary: The Antebellum Period in American history is generally considered to be the period before the civil war and after the War of 1812, although some historians expand it to all the years from the adoption of the Constitution in 1789 to the beginning of the Civil War.
Jackson's election in 1828 remains for most historians a key moment in the rise of American democracy, to use the title of Sean Wilentz's new synthesis of the antebellum years. It inaugurated an age of the common man.. Yet, as Wilentz himself emphasizes, that man had to be white and Protestant.