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Defining Documents in American History: Manifest Destiny & The New Nation (1803-1859)

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Table of Contents: Defining Documents in American History: Manifest Destiny & The New Nation (1803-1859)




Antebellum Law and Politics




Speech in Congress on the War of 1812




McCulloch v. Maryland




The Monroe Doctrine




Gibbons v. Ogden




President Andrew Jackson’s Message to Congress “On Indian Removal”




Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable




Cherokee Nation v. Georgia




Fugitive Slave Act




Compromise of 1850




Dred Scott v. Sandford




Lincoln’s “House Divided” Speech




On the Irrepressible Conflict




Message to the Senate and House Regarding South Carolina’s Nullification Ordinance




Manifest Destiny




Louisiana Purchase Treaty




The Journals of Lewis and Clark




California and Its Inhabitants




On Texan Independence




A Foreigner in My Own Land




Across the Plains in 1844




Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo




People v. Hall




On Seizing Land from Native Californians




The Discovery of Gold in California




Present at the Beginning of the Gold Rush




Regarding Oregon Statehood




Compelled to Sell, Little by Little




The Spirit of Reform




“Observations on the Real Rights of Women”




A Plan for Improving Female Education




Condition of Women




The Nature and Occasions of Intemperance




Address Delivered before the General Trades’ Union of the City of New York




Lowell Mill Girls




The Sphere of Woman and Man as Moral Beings the Same




Self-Reliance




The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men, Woman versus Women




Manifesto of Robert Owen




Address to the First Women’s Rights Convention, July 19, 1848




Resistance to Civil Government




The Trial of John Brown




The Rights of Man to Property




The Education of Free Men




The New “Democratic” Doctrine




African American Protest Literature




An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade




A Thanksgiving Sermon on Abolition of the Slave Trade




The Confessions of Nat Turner




Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave




Narrative of Sojourner Truth




Uncle Tom’s Cabin




Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup




David Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World




I Will Sink or Swim with My Race




The New American Identity




Oration before the Shamrock Friendly Association




Democracy in America




The Colored American




Declaration of Principles of the Native American Convention




A Woman’s Trip across the Plains




An Emigrant’s Narrative; or, A Voice from the Steerage




A Chinese American Protest




Germans in America Are on the Rise




The Voice of Warning to the Native-Born Patriots of Our Country




Progress and Extent of Immigration Prior to 1819




On the Description of Persons to Whom Emigration Would Be Most Beneficial




Editorial on Ethnic Colonies in Alabama and Illinois




Religious Expansion




The Kentucky Revival; or, A Short History of the Late Extraordinary Out-Pouring of the Spirit of God




Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington




Spiritual Freedom




Lectures on Revivals of Religion




Petition to the US Congress Regarding the Great Influx of Roman Catholics




I Believe in the Divinity of Labor




Colored Churches in This City




Plan of the West Roxbury Community




General Remarks on the State of Theological Opinion in America




Native American Land and Autonomy




Tecumseh’s Speeches to Governor William Harrison and General Henry Procter




An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man




Red Jacket’s Speech to Reverend Jacob Cram




We Love the Land That Covers the Bones of Our Fathers




Resolutions of the Treaty Party




Memorial of the Cherokee Nation




Address on the Present Condition and Prospects of Aboriginal Inhabitants of North America




Chronological List




Historical Timeline




Web Resources




Bibliography




Index