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The Creation of American Society, 1450-1775 | |
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Worlds Collide: Europe, Africa, and America, 1450-1620 | |
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Native American Worlds | |
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Indian and Non-Indian Population Charts, 1492-1980 | |
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Discovery and Conquest of Mexico (1517-1521) | |
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Confessario (1613) | |
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The Role of Women Huron Society (1721) | |
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Traditional European Society in 1450, and Europe Encounters Africa and the Americas, 1450-1550 | |
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An Account of Famine (c. 1040) | |
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Princy Henry and the Slave Trade (1444) | |
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Columbus's Landfall (1552) | |
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The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of England | |
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Objections against Enclosure (1548) | |
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A Discourse to Promote Colonization (1584) | |
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Brief and True Report of the New Found Land (1588) | |
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Visual Documents: Native Americans from Roanoke Island (1585, 1590) | |
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The Invasion and Settlement of North America, 1550-1700 | |
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Imperial Conflicts and Rival Colonial Models | |
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History of the Indies (1552) | |
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A True Relation of Virginia (1608) | |
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Checklist for Virginia-Bound Colonists (1624) | |
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The Chesapeake Experience | |
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Notes on Indentured Servitude in Virginia (1640) | |
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Manifesto (1676) | |
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Puritan New England | |
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A Modell of Christian Charity (1630) | |
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Transcript of the Examination of Anne Hutchinson (1637) | |
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John Porter Jr. and Puritan Family Law (1646, 1664) | |
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The Ordeal of Cotton Mather's Family (1713) | |
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The Indians' New World | |
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But What Warrant Have We to Take That Land? (1629) | |
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Strangers in Their Own Land: The Catawbas Confront the English (1754-1755) | |
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The British Empire in America, 1660-1750 | |
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The Politics of Empire, 1660-1713 | |
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The Navigation Act of 1660 | |
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The Glorious Revolution in Massachusetts (1689) | |
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The Imperial Slave Economy | |
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Thomas Phillips, A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal (1693-1694) | |
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Slavery and Prejudice: An Act for the Better Order and Government of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina (1712) | |
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Conflicts between Masters and Slaves: Maryland in the Mid-Seventeenth Century | |
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An Early Slave Narrative: Ayubah Suleiman Diallo, or "Job" (1734) | |
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The Secret Diary of William Byrd II (1709-1711) | |
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Visual Documents: Plantation Life in the Eighteenth Century | |
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The New Politics of Empire, 1713-1750 | |
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Governor Alexander Spotswood Tangles with the Virginia Burgesses | |
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Stono Rebellion in South Carolina (1739) | |
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Growth and Crisis in Colonial Society, 1720-1765 | |
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Freehold Society in New England | |
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A New Hampshire Will (1763) | |
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The Obligations of a Wife (1712) | |
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The Mid-Atlantic: Toward a New Society, 1720-1765 | |
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A Description of Philadelphia (1748) | |
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Class Structure in New York (1765) | |
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Letter from a Scots-Irish Immigrant (1767) | |
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Visual Document: An Abolitionist in Pennsylvania in the 1730s | |
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The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, 1740-1765 | |
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On Education during the American Enlightenment (1749) | |
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The Reverend James Ireland, An Evangelical Preacher's Trials (1760s) | |
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Fighting Revivalism in the Carolina Backcountry (1768) | |
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The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750-1765 | |
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Negotiating Peace with the Ohio Indians (1758) | |
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Protests on the Frontier I: The Paxton Riots (1764) | |
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Protests on the Frontier II: The North Carolina Regulators (1769) | |
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Toward Independence: Years of Decision, 1763-1775 | |
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The Imperial Reform Movement, 1763-1765, and The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765-1766 | |
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Report on the Debates in Parliament (1765) | |
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Stamp Act Riot (1765) | |
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New York Merchant Boycott Agreement (1765) | |
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Norfolk Sons of Liberty Pronouncement (1766) | |
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Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress (1765) | |
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The Growing Confrontation, 1767-1770 | |
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Letter VII from a Farmer (1768) | |
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The Boycott Agreement of the Women in Boston (1770) | |
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Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion (1780s) | |
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An Account of the Boston Massacre (1770) | |
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The Road to War, 1771-1775 | |
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An Account of the Boston Tea Party of 1773 | |
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Visual Documents: A British View of Rebellion in Boston (1774) | |
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The Edenton, North Carolina, Boycott Agreement (1774) | |
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Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774) | |
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The Continental Congress Creates the Association (1774) | |
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The New Republic, 1775-1820 | |
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War and Revolution, 1775-1783 | |
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Toward Independence, 1775-1776 | |
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The Poor Reptiles (1774) | |
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A Proclamation (1775) | |
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On Liberty and Slavery (1775) | |
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Condemning the King on the Issue of Slavery (1776) | |
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The Trials of War, 1776-1778, and The Path to Victory, 1778-1783 | |
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Continental Congress to the Iroquois Confederacy (1775) | |
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The American Crisis, Number I (December 1776) | |
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An Account of Life with the Army (1780-1783) | |
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An African American Recounts His War Service (1775-1777) | |
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An Account of War on the Frontier (1777-1782) | |
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Civil War in the Southern Backcountry (1781) | |
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Visual Documents: British Perceptions of the War for Independence (1776, 1778) | |
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Republicanism Defined and Challenged | |
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Boston Women Support Price Control (1777) | |
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Philadelphia Militiamen Seek to Protect Their Rights (1779) | |
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Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom (1786) | |
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Proslavery Petitions in Virginia (1785) | |
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The New Political Order, 1776-1800 | |
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Creating Republican Institutions, 1776-1787 | |
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The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) | |
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Pachgantschihilas Warns about the Long Knives (1781) | |
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On Democracy, Banks, and Paper Money (1786) | |
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The Constitution of 1787 | |
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A Warning to the Delegates about Leveling (1787) | |
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An Attack on the Proposed Federal Constitution (1787) | |
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The Federalist, No. 10 (1787) | |
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The Political Crisis of the 1790s | |
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Report on Public Credit (1790) | |
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Farewell Address (1796) | |
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Visual Documents: George Washington and Resisting Tyranny (1799, 1800) | |
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The Sedition Act (1798) | |
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The Kentucky Resolutions (1798) | |
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First Inaugural Address (1801) | |
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Dynamic Change: Western Settlement and Eastern Capitalism, 1790-1820 | |
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Westward Expansion | |
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Proposed Indian Policy for the New Republic | |
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Message to Congress (January 18, 1803) | |
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A Pioneer Woman in Post-Revolutionary Kentucky (1840s) | |
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The Slaveholders' Frontier: Moving to Mississippi (1808-1809) | |
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The Republicans' Political Revolution | |
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Marbury v. Madison (1803) | |
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Congressional Resolution on Western Lands (1800) | |
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The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) | |
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Visual Documents: Jefferson and the Embargo (1808, 1809) | |
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Speech to Tecumseh and the Prophet (1811) and Report to the Secretary of War (1814) | |
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Hartford Convention Resolutions, 1814 | |
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The Capitalist Commonwealth | |
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The Virtues and Drawbacks of Chartered Banks (1816) | |
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Fletcher v. Peck (1810) | |
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Argument for the Plaintiff in Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1818) | |
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The Quest for a Republican Society, 1790-1820 | |
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Democratic Republicanism | |
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Visual Document: The Plan for the City of Washington (1791) | |
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Universal (White) Manhood Suffrage? The New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821 | |
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The Education of Republican Women (1798) | |
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Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery, 1780-1820 | |
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Original Intent and Slavery (1819) | |
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The Blight of Slavery (1819) | |
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Forced Migration to the Cotton South: The Narrative of Charles Ball (1837) | |
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Slave Management on a Mississippi Plantation (1852) | |
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Religion in the Quarters (1832) | |
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Protestant Christianity as a Social Force | |
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Defending the Revival at Cane Ridge, Kentucky (1802) | |
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The Duty of Christian Freemen to Elect Christian Rulers (1828) | |
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What Makes Religion Powerful in America? (1831) | |
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Economic Revolution and Sectional Strife, 1820-1877 | |
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The Economic Revolution, 1820-1860 | |
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The Coming of Industry: Northeastern Manufacturing | |
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Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIX (1780) | |
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The Reality of the Agrarian Vision: The Plight of Female Slaves (1839) | |
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A Mill Worker Describes Her Work and Life (1844) | |
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Moral of Manufactures (1837) | |
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Visual Documents: The "Factory Girls" (1844, 1845) | |
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The American System of Manufactures (1854) | |
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The Expansion of Markets | |
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Western Railroads (1845) | |
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A Satire on Western Boosterism (1845) | |
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Changes in the Social Structure | |
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The Rise of an Industrial Aristocracy (1831) | |
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Advice for Businessmen (1856) | |
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A Conversion Experience (1821) | |
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A Democratic Revolution, 1820-1844 | |
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The Rise of Popular Politics, 1820-1829 | |
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An Argument against Universal Suffrage (1821) | |
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The Tyranny of the Majority (1830s) | |
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Speech on the Tariff (March 30-31, 1824) | |
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The Jacksonian Presidency, 1829-1837 | |
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Bank Veto Message (1832) | |
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On Indian Removal (1829) | |
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South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832) | |
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Class, Culture, and the Second Party System | |
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Address to the Working Men of New England (1832) | |
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Acquittal of Cordwainers of Hudson, New York, in People v. Cooper (1836) | |
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Visual Document: The Election of 1836 | |
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Protecting Domestic Industry (1842) | |
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A Whig Discusses How to Appeal to the Workingman (1833) | |
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Religion and Reform, 1820-1860 | |
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Individualism and Communalism | |
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Walden (1854) | |
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The Shakers (1850) | |
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Male Continence (1872) | |
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Abolitionism | |
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Commencement of The Liberator (1831) | |
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Visual Document: Satirizing Free Blacks (1836) | |
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) | |
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The Women's Rights Movement | |
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Breaking Out of Women's Separate Sphere (1838) | |
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Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848) | |
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The Crisis of the Union, 1844-1860 | |
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Manifest Destiny | |
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Texas, California, and Manifest Destiny (1845) | |
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The Importance of California (1845) | |
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War, Expansion, and Slavery, 1846-1850 | |
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The American Invasion of Mexico, 1847 | |
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Defining the Constitutional Limits of Slavery (1850) | |
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A Discourse on the Constitution (1850) | |
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The End of the Second Party System, 1850-1858 | |
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | |
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The Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act (1855) | |
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Opposing Accounts of the Rescue of a Fugitive (1851) | |
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Charles Sumner, The Crime against Kansas (1856) | |
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The Dred Scott Decision (1857) | |
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Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858-1860 | |
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) | |
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The Trial of John Brown (1859) | |
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The Republican Party Platform of 1860 | |
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Two Societies at War, 1861-1865 | |
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Secession and Military Stalemate, 1861-1862 and Toward Total War | |
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South Carolina Secedes from the Union (1860) | |
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Constitution of the Confederate States (1861) | |
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The Crisis at Fort Sumter (April 1861) | |
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A British Reporter Witnesses the First Battle of Bull Run (July 1861) | |
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The Work of the United States Sanitary Commission (1864) | |
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The Turning Point: 1863 | |
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Slave Runaways in South Carolina (1861) | |
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A Northern Black Woman Teaches Contrabands in South Carolina (1862) | |
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The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (1862) | |
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Visual Documents: Lincoln and Emancipation (1864) | |
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The New York City Draft Riots (July 1863) | |
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The Gettysburg Address (1863) | |
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The Union Victorious, 1864-1865 | |
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Confederates Debate Emancipation (1863-1864) | |
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Second Inaugural Address (1865) | |
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Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | |
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Presidential Reconstruction | |
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Plan of Reconstruction (1865) | |
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Report on Conditions in the South (1865) | |
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The Mississippi Black Codes (1865) | |
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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 | |
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Radical Reconstruction | |
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Black Suffrage and Land Redistribution (1867) | |
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The Fourteenth Amendment and Woman Suffrage (1873, 1875) | |
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An Advocate of Federal Aid for Land Purchase (1868) | |
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Statistics on Black Ownership (1870-1910) | |
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The Undoing of Reconstruction | |
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Visual Documents: The Rise and Fall of Northern Support for Reconstruction (1868, 1874) | |
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A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools (1879) | |
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President Grant Refuses to Aid Republicans in Mississippi (1875) | |
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The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) | |