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

Table of Contents

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




Supplemental Historical Documents



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


Supplemental Historical Documents



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


Supplemental Historical Documents



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




Supplemental Historical Documents



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


Supplemental Historical Documents



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


Supplemental Historical Documents



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