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| The Settlement Enterprise | |
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| Richard Hakluyt on the Colonizing of North America | |
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| Richard Hakluyt, Why England Should Settle North America ((1584) | |
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| John Winthrop Advises Puritans to Emigrate | |
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| John Winthrop, Why We Should Leave England (1629) | |
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| A Cavalier Goes into Exile | |
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| Colonel Norwood, A Voyage to Virginia (1649) | |
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| The Common Folk Come to America | |
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| William Penn,Who Should Go to Pennsylvania? (1683) | |
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| Indentured Servants: Upward Mobility or Deeper Bondage | |
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| Servant's Indenture for Transportation to Virginia (1622) | |
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| Coercion: the West African Slave | |
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| Venture Smith, An Eighteenth-Century African Describes His Enslavement (1729) | |
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| The British Colonies of North America | |
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| Paradise or Hell: Economic Survival and Opportunity | |
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| John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia (1609) | |
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| Richard Ffrethorne, A Virginia Settler Regrets Coming | |
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| Gabriel Thomas, An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania etc | |
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| John Josselyn, An Account of Two Voyages to New England | |
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| Reverend Andrew Burnaby, New-York City | |
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| The Political Economy: Old Regime or Innovation? | |
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| Ordinance for Virginia (1621) | |
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| Massachusetts Bay Company (1629) | |
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| Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions to Patroons (1629) | |
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| The Navigation Act of 1663 | |
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| Religious Toleration | |
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| John Cotton, God Did Not Ordain Democracy Fit for Church or Commonwealth (1636) | |
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| Massachusetts Proscribes Quakers (1677) | |
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| Royal Order to Send Accused Quakers to England (1661) | |
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| Roger Williams Responds to John Cotton (1644) | |
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| Hector St. John de Crévecoeur, American Diversity: American Tolerance (1782) | |
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| Class Tensions and Slavery in Colonial America | |
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| Jaspar Danckaerts, A Traveler Disapproves of the Chesapeake Planters (1679) | |
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| William Eddis, The Wretchedness of White Servants (1770) | |
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| Reverend R. Walsh, The Inspection of a Slave Ship | |
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| MarylandStatue on Negroes and Other Slaves (1664) | |
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| Runaway Slaves (1745, 1749) | |
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| George Oglethorpe on the Stono Rebellion (1739) | |
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| The Diary of Samuel Sewall | |
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| Native Americans | |
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| A British Officer Describes Native Americans | |
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| Captain Jonathan Carver, A Concise Character of the Indians (1767) | |
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| A Pennsylvanian Calls the Native Americans "Devils" | |
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| Hugh Henry Brackenridge, The Indians Have No Exclusive Claim to America (1782) | |
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| William Penn Urges Kindness Toward Native Americans | |
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| William Penn Admires the Indians (1683) | |
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| A Moravian Missionary Praises Native American Values | |
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| John Heckewelder, Indians and Nature (1777) | |
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| The Little Mohee (c. 1725) | |
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| Treaties and Alliances | |
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| Iroquois Chiefs Address the Governors of New York and Virginia (1684) | |
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| An Iroquois Chief Discusses the Treaty of Rights (1742) | |
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| The Paxton Boys and Native American Extermination | |
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| Benjamin Franklin, A Narrative of the Late Massacres, in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, Friends of This Province, by Persons Unknown. With Some Observations on the Same. (1764) | |
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| Professor Peter Kalm, Small Pox and Brandy Among the Indians (1749) | |
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| Patriot versus Loyalist | |
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| The Stamp Act: Congress Denounces Taxation without Representation | |
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| The Stamp Act (1765) | |
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| Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress (1765) | |
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| Francis Bennard Describes Stamp Act Riots in Boston (1765) | |
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| A Constitutional Crisis: Virtual and Actual Representation | |
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| Benjamin Franklin, Invectives Against the Americans (1765) | |
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| The Boston Town Meeting Presents the Patriot Case | |
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| Joseph Warren, A List of Infringements and Violations of Rights (1772) | |
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| An American Radical Reevaluates the English Constitution | |
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| Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776) | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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| The Radicalism of the American Revolution | |
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| The Virginia Bill of Rights (1776) | |
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| Parliament's Official View | |
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| The Declaratory Act (1766) | |
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| A British Official Argues for Taxing Americans | |
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| Samuel Johnson, A Diatribe on the American Arguments (1766) | |
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| A British View of "No Taxation without Representation" | |
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| Soame Jenyns, "No Taxation with Representation" Is an Invalid Argument (1765) | |
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| American Loyalists Defend Britain | |
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| Josiah Quincy, Jr., The Hutchinson Riot (1775) | |
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| Samuel Seabury, Anglican Ministers Defends Britain's Position (1774) | |
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| The American Revolution as a Social Movement | |
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| Abigail Adams on Women's Rights (1776) | |
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| Prince Hall, a Former Slave (1777) | |
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| The Constitution | |
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| Drafting the Constitution | |
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| George Washington, Letter from the Constitutional Convention to the President of Congress (1787) | |
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| Resolutions of the Convention Concerning the Ratification and Implementation of the Constitution (1787) | |
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| The Constitution | |
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| Patrick Henry Denounces the Constitution | |
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| Patrick Henry,Virginia Should Reject the Constitution (1788) | |
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| The Constitution as a Usurpation | |
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| Richard Henry Lee, the Constitution Will Encourage Aristocracy (1787) | |
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| "The Father of the Constitution" Defends His Offspring | |
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| James Madison, The Constitution Should Be Ratified (1787) | |
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| James Madison, Regulating the Violence of Faction Federalist Paper #10 (1788) | |
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| Alexander Hamilton on Pro- and Anti-Constitution Forces | |
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| Alexander Hamilton, On the Expediency of Adopting the Federal Constitution (1787) | |
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| Federalist versus Republican | |
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| Alexander Hamilton's Economic Reports | |
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| Alexander Hamilton, The First Report on Public Credit (1790) | |
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| Alexander Hamilton, The Second Report on Public Credit (1790) | |
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| Alexander Hamilton, The Report on Manufactures (1791) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson and the American Arcadia | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, Query XIX: Manufactures (1784) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson Attacks the Hamiltonian System | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, The Vile Hamiltonian System (1790) | |
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| The Jeffersonians Embrace the French | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, In Praise of the French Jacobins (1793) | |
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| The Federalists Denounce the French Revolution | |
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| Gouverneur Morris, Deploring the Excesses of the French Revolution (1793) | |
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| Freedom of Expression: the Press | |
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| The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) | |
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| Edward Livingston Opposes the Alien Act (1798) | |
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| Washington and the Success of the Great Experiment | |
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| From Washington's First Inaugural Address (1789) | |
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| James Madison Embraces Political Parties From Washington's Farewell Address (1796) | |
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| Pioneers and Native Americans | |
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| Opening the Great American Desert: the Lewis and Clark Expedition | |
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| John Filson, The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon (1784)) | |
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| Frederick Jackson Turner, Report to the American Historical Association (1893) | |
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| The Pioneer Experience | |
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| The Diary of Elias Pym Fordham (1818) | |
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| Journal of Zerah Hawley (1821) | |
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| Indian Removal | |
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| Timothy Flint, the Indians Are Savages The Indian Removal Act (1830) | |
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| Memorial to Congress by Inhabitants of the Territory (1832) | |
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| John C. Calhoun, Justification for "Removal" | |
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| The Indians Protest Against Removal | |
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| Capital versus Labor | |
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| The Lowell System | |
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| Charles Dickens, A Positive View of the Lowell Girls (1842) | |
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| The "Factory Girls" Tell Their Own Story (1845-1846) | |
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| An Economist Defends Capitalism | |
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| Henry C. Carey, Worker Benefit from High Profits (1835) | |
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| The Workingmen's Party Indicts Capitalism | |
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| The Workingmen's Party, Workers Are Exploited and Oppressed (1840) | |
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| Popular Songs of American Workers | |
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| LowBridge, Everybody Down | |
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| E.R.I.E. No Irish Need Apply | |
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| Pat Works on the Railway | |
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| Jacksonian Democracy | |
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| Andrew Jackson: Man of the People or Autocrat? | |
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| Mrs. Smith Observes the Inauguration of Andrew Jackson (1829) | |
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| Andrew Jackson Protests to the Senate (1834) | |
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| Andrew Jackson Vetoes the Bank Bill | |
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| Andrew Jackson, Why I Vetoed the BUS Recharter (1832) | |
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| Daniel Webster Replies to the Veto | |
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| Daniel Webster Defends the BUS (1832) | |
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| Democratic Egalitarianism | |
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| Isaac S. Smith, The Positions of the Loco Focos (1836) | |
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| A "Knickerbocker" Gentleman Flays the "Rabble" | |
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| Philip Hone, A Whig Gentleman's View of the Working Class | |
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| The Ferment of Reform | |
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| Women's Rights | |
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| The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848) | |
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| Abolitionism and Human Rights | |
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| Angelina Grimkÿ, Human Rights Not Founded On Sex (1837) | |
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| Sojourner Truth, When Woman Gets Her Rights Man Will Be Right (1867) | |
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| Women and Divorce | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton Questions the Laws of Marriage and Divorce (1861) | |
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| Sarah Josepha Hale On Women and Peace Societies | |
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| Sarah Josepha Hale,Ought Ladies to Form Peace Societies? (1840) | |
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| Dorothea L. Dix and the Plight of the Mentally Ill | |
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| Dorothea L. Dix, Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1843) | |
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| The Mexican War | |
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| Manifest Destiny | |
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| John L. O'sullivan, Manifest Destiny (1845) | |
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| James K. Polk Calls For War against Mexico | |
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| Polk's War Message (1846) | |
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| The Mexican View | |
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| Ramon Alcaraz, The Mexican View of the War (1850) | |
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| Dissent At Home | |
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| James Russell Lowell, The Mexican War Is on Behalf of Slavery | |
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| Charles Sumner, Senator from Massachusetts (1847) | |
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| Thomas Corwin, The War With Mexico Is Morally Wrong (1847) | |
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| Frederick Douglass Opposes the War (1848) | |
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| Slavery and the "Old South" | |
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| 1 Slavery from the Victim's Viewpoint | |
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| William Brown, My Life as a Slave | |
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| Harriet Jacobs,The Trials of Girlhood | |
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| A Southern Apologist Views Slavery | |
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| Edward A. Pollard, Happy "Darkies" (1859) | |
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| The Southern Plantation Idyll vs. Northern Experiments | |
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| John Pendleton Kennedy, The Southern Plantation Idyll | |
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| George Fitzhugh, In What Slavery Ends | |
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| 4 A Nonslaveholding Southerner Attacks the "Peculiar Institution" | |
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| Hinton Rowan Helper, Slavery Hurts Non-Slaveholding Whites (1857) | |
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| Abolitionism | |
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| William Lloyd Garrison, Manifesto of a New Antislavery Movement | |
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| A Northerner Describes the Old South | |
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| Frederick Law Olmstead, A Northern Traveler Views Southern Slavery (1854) | |
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| The World the Slaves Made | |
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| Go Down, Moses (c. 1850) | |
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| Resistance and Rebellion | |
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| James W. C. Pennington, The Escape of a Fugitive Slave | |
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| Rebellion: the Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) | |
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| The Clash of Sections | |
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| A Southern Champion Demands Equal Rights for the South | |
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| John C. Calhoun, The South Defended (1850) | |
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| A Northern Unionist Supports the Compromise of 1850 | |
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| Daniel Webster, Webster's Seventh of March Speech Favoring the Compromise | |
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| Measures (1850) | |
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| Antislavery Leaders Respond to the Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
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| The Kansas���Nebraska Act: A Plot against the North (1854) | |
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| John Brown and the Remission of Sins by Blood | |
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| John Brown's Last Speech (1859) | |
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| The Victory of the Republican Party | |
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| The Republican Party Platform of 1860 | |
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| The South Secedes | |
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| South Carolina Secession Convention (1860) | |
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| Why South Carolina Is Leaving the Union (1860) | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| The War Is About Slavery | |
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| Alexander H. Stephens, Slavery Is the Cornerstone of the Confederacy (1861) | |
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| The War Will Destroy Slavery (1861) | |
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| The War Is Over Constitutional Issues | |
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| Jefferson Davis, Inaugural Address (1861) | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address (1861) | |
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| The War Is a Clash of Economic Interests | |
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| The North Opposed the South Economically (1860) | |
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| Edward Everett, The North's Economic Grievances Against the South (1861) | |
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| The Union's Advance Undermines Slavery | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863) | |
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| James Henry Gooding, An African American Soldier Appeals for Equality (1863) | |
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| The New York City Draft Riots (1863) | |
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| Mrs. Burton Harrison, A Lady of the Old South Describes the Fall of Richmond (1865) | |
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| The Experience of Civil War Soldiers | |
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| Frank Wilkeson, Death in Battle (1864) | |
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| Battle Cry of Freedom | |
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| The Bonnie Blue Flag | |
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| John Brown's Body | |
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| Dixie | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| Harsh Versus Lenient Victors | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction Must Be Gradual and Careful (1865) | |
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| Andrew Johnson, Amnesty Proclamation (1865) | |
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| Thaddeus Stevens, We Must Have a Radical Reconstruction | |
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| The White South Responds | |
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| Mississippi Black Code (1865) | |
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| James W. Hunnicutt, Johnson's Policies Criticized (1866) | |
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| White People Must Regain Control of Their States (1868) | |
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| Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan (1874) | |
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| The Black Response | |
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| Frederick Douglass, What the Black Man Wants (1865) | |
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| Ex-Slaves Should Have Land (1868) | |
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| The Ex-Slaves Crave Education (1866) | |
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| An Appeal for Protection from the KKK (1871) | |