Unit Nine: 19682001

Unit Eight: 19541975

Unit Seven: 19311960
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Unit Five: 18901920
Unit Four: 18771917
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Unit One: Beginnings1783
CHRONOLOGY
Science and Technology
Economic Opportunity
Women and Political Power
Diversity and the National Identity
The American Dream
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America in World Affairs
Voting Rights
Civil Rights
Immigration and Migration
States' Rights
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The American Dream
John Smith What Happened Till the First Supply, 16071614
Inhabitants of New-Plimouth from The Book of the General Laws, 1685
Sir William Keith from A Short Discourse on the Present State of the
Colonies, 1728
Jonathan Edwards from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, 1741
Lord Adam Gordon from How Our Cities Looked, 1765
John Adams from Inaugural Address, 1797
Thomas Jefferson from A Letter to Meriwether Lewis, 1803
Meriwether Lewis from List of Requirements, 1803
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U.S. Government from Louisiana Purchase Treaty, 1803
James Monroe from First Inaugural Address, 1817
John C. Calhoun from Address to the People of the United States, 1832
Andrew Jackson from Proclamation to the People of the United States,
Andrea Castan Villanueva Alamo Massacre, 1836
Levi Coffin The Story of Eliza Harris, mid1800s
Theodore Parker from The Function of Conscience, 1850
Herman Francis Reinhart from The Golden Frontier, 1851
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Horatio Alger The Two Acre Lot, 1856
Jefferson Davis from The Inaugural Address of the President of the
Robert E. Lee Letters to His Family, 1861
John S. Jackman from Diary of a Confederate Soldier, 18621863
George Fowle from Letters to Eliza from a Union Soldier, 1864
General William T . Sherman from A Letter to General John Bell Hood, 1864
General John Bell Hood from A Letter to General William T. Sherman, 1864
Annie Ruth Davis from An Interview with a Former Slave, 1870s
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Charles E. Bolton from A Visit to the Worlds Columbian Exposition, 1892
Jennie Curtiss How Women Are Treated by the Pullman Company,
Theodore Roosevelt from The Strenuous Life, 1899
Mary McLeod Bethunu How Bethune-Cookman College Began, 1900s
Andy Adams from The Log of a Cowboy, 1903
Woodrow Wilson Request for a Declaration of War, 1917
Committee on Public Four-Minute Speech, 1918
Henry Cabot Lodge On the Terms of Peace, 1918
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Woodrow Wilson Why a League of Nations Is Necessary, 1919
Heywood Broun The Sultan of Swat Steals a World Series Show, 1923
Bruce Bliven from Flapper Jane, 1925
Robert S. and Helen from Middletown, 1929
Anonymous Beans, Bacon, and Gravy, 1930s
George A. Dondero from Are We Being Led Into War?, 1941
New York Times from Let Us Face the Truth, 1941
Franklin Delano Roosevelt On the Declaration of War, 1941
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The American Dream
Michael Harrington from The Other America, 1962
Malcolm X from A Speech to Mississippi Youth, 1964
Jimmy Carter On Energy and National Goals, 1979
Bill Clinton from First Inaugural Address, 1993
Newt Gingrich A Contract with America, 1994
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Studs Terkel from My American Century, 1997
Marian Wright Edelman from Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors, 1999
George W. Bush Inaugural Address, 2001
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Thomas Jefferson from A Letter to Meriwether Lewis, 1803
Meriwether Lewis from List of Requirements, 1803
Sarah Bagley from Pleasures of Factory Life, 1840
Charles E. Bolton from A Visit to the Worlds Columbian Exposition, 1892
Frederick Dwight from Automobiles: The Other Side of the Shield, 1908
Frederick W. Taylor The Taylor System, 1912
Lillian Gish from The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me, 1914
Harry S. Truman Statement on the Atomic Bomb, 1945
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Science and Technology
John F . Kennedy and On the Space Program, 1961
Thamar E. Dufwa Life in a Shelter, 1963
People of Color Principles of Environmental Justice, 1991
Nicholas Negroponte from Being Digital, 1995
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Economic Opportunity
Gomes Eanes de Zurara On the Beginnings of the Portuguese-African Slave
Bartolom de Las Casas On the Destruction of the Indies, 1540s
Sir William Keith from A Short Discourse on the Present State of the
Members of the from Resolutions for American Duties, 1764
Lord Adam Gordon from How Our Cities Looked, 1765
Association of the Sons of from Resolutions, 1773
U.S. Government from Louisiana Purchase Treaty, 1803
Thomas Jefferson from A Letter to Meriwether Lewis, 1803
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Colonies, 1728
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Sarah Bagley from Pleasures of Factory Life, 1840
New York Times from 141 Die in Factory Fire, 1911
Harper s Weekly from The Base-Ball Season, 1886
New York Times On Minding Your Own Business, 1929
Cesar Chavez Childhood During the Depression, 1930s
W. W. Waters from B.E.F.: The Whole Story of the Bonus Army, 1932
Franklin Delano Roosevelt from Acceptance Speech, 1932
Franklin Delano Roosevelt from First Inaugural Address, 1933
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Economic Opportunity
Cesar Chavez The Birth of La Causa, 1962
Michael Harrington from The Other America, 1962
Ronald Reagan On the Program for Economic Recovery, 1981
Organizing Committee of from Mission Statement, 1995
Studs Terkel from My American Century, 1997
Marian Wright Edelman from Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors, 1999
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Women and Political Power
Sarah Bagley from Pleasures of Factory Life, 1840
Lucy Stone Disappointment Is the Lot of Women, 1855
U.S. Government from The United States of America v. Susan B.
Jane Addams The Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for
Elinore Pruitt Stewart from Letters of a Woman Homesteader, 1913
Eleanor Roosevelt from Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do,
Betty Friedan from The Feminine Mystique, 1963
National Organization from NOWs Statement of Purpose, 1966
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Women, 1906
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Christopher Columbus from A Letter to the Treasurer of Spain, 1493
lvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca from La Relacin, 1530s
Melchor Daz from Reconnaissance, 1540
Anonymous Twelve Hundred More, 1870s
J. D. C. Atkins On the Use of English in Indian Schools, 1887
Luther Standing Bear On the White Men, 1900s
Arthur Little From Harlem to the Rhine, 1918
Louis Marshall from A Letter Regarding Immigration Restrictions, 1924
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Diversity and the National Identity
U.S. Government Japanese-American Testimony from the
Reverend Jesse L. Jackson from Victim-Victimizer: Why Excel?, 1977
Carlos Alberto Montaner Why Fear Spanish?, 1988
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Immigration and Migration
King James I from the First Charter of Virginia, 1606
John Smith What Happened Till the First Supply, 16071614
Thomas Jones from The Journal of the Ship May-Flower, 1620
Quintin Stockwell from A Captivity Narrative, 1677
Samuel Sewell A Letter Regarding Relations with the Indians, 1700
Robert Stuart from The Discovery of the Oregon Trail, 1812
Andrew Jackson from A Message to Congress on Indian Policy, 1835
U.S. Government from Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
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Immigration and Migration
Herman Francis Reinhart from The Golden Frontier, 1851
Anonymous Twelve Hundred More, 1870s
Israel Kasovich from The Days of Our Years, 1880s
U.S. Government from Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Elinore Pruitt Stewart from Letters of a Woman Homesteader, 1913
Louis Marshall from A Letter Regarding Immigration Restrictions, 1924
Cesar Chavez Childhood During the Depression, 1930s
Studs Terkel from My American Century, 1997
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John C. Calhoun from Address to the People of the United States, 1832
Andrew Jackson from Proclamation to the People of the United States,
U.S. Government from Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Jefferson Davis from The Inaugural Address of the President of the
Mississippi State Legislature from Black Codes of Mississippi of 1865
U.S. Government from Civil Rights Act of 1866
Thaddeus Stevens from An Address on Reconstruction, 1867
U.S. Government from Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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Percy Andreae On Prohibition and Liberty, 1914
U.S. Department of Justice Instructions Regarding Conduct on Raids, 1920
Samuel Hopkins Adams from My Bootlegger, 1921
Denver Post Senate Demands Information on Teapot Dome, 1922
U.S. Government Japanese-American Testimony from the
Paul Robeson Statement on Civil Liberties in America, 1956
U.S. Government from Civil Rights Act of 1964
National Lawyers Guild from Citizens Guide to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Members of the British from Resolutions for American Duties, 1764
Benjamin Franklin The Mother Country, 1765
Paul Revere from An Account of a Late Military Massacre, 1770
Association of the from Resolutions, 1773
Thomas Paine from Common Sense, 1776
James Madison from Notes on Slavery at the Federal Convention, 1787
Benjamin Franklin On the Constitution, 1787
Tench Coxe On The Federal Government, 1787
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Anonymous from The Federal Constitution Is Wisely Formed, 1788
Publius from Federalist 51, 1788
George W ashington from Proclamation Regarding the Whiskey Rebellion,
American AntiSlavery Society from Declaration of Sentiments, 1833
Harriet Tubman On Slavery, 1850s
Thaddeus Stevens from An Address on Reconstruction, 1867
U.S. Government from The United States of America v. Susan B.
Samuel Gompers On the Goals of Trade Unions, 1883
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1794
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E. W . Scripps from Whatever Is, Is Wrong, 1900s
Florence Kelley On the Need for Child Labor Laws, 1905
Jane Addams The Modern City and the Municipal Franchise
Eleanor Roosevelt from Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men
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Charles Ball from A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of
Harriet A. Jacobs from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, about 1820s
American AntiSlavery Society from Declaration of Sentiments, 1833
William J. Grayson The Question of Negro Slavery, 1850s
Harriet Tubman On Slavery, 1850s
Frederick Douglass from A Lecture on the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1855
Mississippi State Legislature from Black Codes of Mississippi of 1865
U.S. Government from Civil Rights Act of 1866
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Ida B. Wells from The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, 1892
Percy Andreae On Prohibition and Liberty, 1914
U.S. Department of Justice Instructions Regarding Conduct on Raids, 1920
General Douglas MacArthur from A Report on the Employment of Federal Troops,
U.S. Government Japanese-American Testimony from the
Paul Robeson Statement on Civil Liberties in America, 1956
Melba Pattillo Beals Desegregation at Central High School, 1957
Craig Rains Desegregation at Central High School, 1957
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National Defense Migration Hearings, 1942
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Martin Luther King, Jr. from Stride Toward Freedom, 1958
U.S. Government from Civil Rights Act of 1964
National Lawyers Guild from Citizens Guide to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
City of Chicago from The Strategy of Confrontation, 1968
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Benjamin Franklin The Mother Country, 1765
U.S. Government from Louisiana Purchase Treaty, 1803
U.S. Government from Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
Captain Charles D. Sigsbee from The Maine: An Account of Her Destruction, 1898
AntiImperialist League Platform, 1899
Albert J. Beveridge On the War in the Philippines, 1900
Woodrow Wilson Request for a Declaration of War, 1917
Arthur Little From Harlem to the Rhine, 1918
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Committee on Public Information Four-Minute Speech, 1918
Henry Cabot Lodge On the Terms of Peace, 1918
Woodrow Wilson Why a League of Nations Is Necessary, 1919
Winston Churchill Letter to Roosevelt, 1940
George A. Dondero from Are We Being Led Into War?, 1941
New York Times from Let Us Face The Truth, 1941
Franklin Delano Roosevelt On the Declaration of War, 1941
Office of Civilian Defense What Can I Do?, 1942
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Harry S. Truman Statement on the Atomic Bomb, 1945
Harry S. Truman The Truman Doctrine, 1947
General Douglas MacArthur Frustration in Korea, 1947
U.S. Government The Tonkin Gulf Resolution, 1964
Lyndon B. Johnson from Peace Without Conquest, 1965
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick from The United States and the World: Setting Limits,
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America in World Affairs
1986
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Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Three Worlds Meet
The American Colonies Emerge
The Colonies Come of Age
The War for Independence
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Unit 1
Beginnings1783
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Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Shaping a New Nation
Launching the New Nation
Balancing Nationalism and Sectionalism
Reforming American Society
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Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Expanding Markets and Moving West
The Union in Peril
The Civil War
Reconstruction and Its Effects
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18251877
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Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Changes on the Western Frontier
A New Industrial Age
Immigrants and Urbanization
Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
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18771917
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Chapter 18
Chapter 19
The Progressive Era
America Claims an Empire
The First World War
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19191940
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Politics of the Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Life of the 1920s
The Great Depression Begins
The New Deal
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19311960
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
World War Looms
The United States in World War II
Cold War Conflicts
The Postwar Boom
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Unit 8
19541975
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
The New Frontier and the Great Society
Civil Rights
The Vietnam War Years
An Era of Social Change
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Unit 9
19682001
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
An Age of Limits
The Conservative Tide
The United States in Today's World
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T h r e e Wo r l d s Me e t
Gomes Eanes de Zurara On the Beginnings of the Portuguese-African Slave
Trade, 1400s
Christopher Columbus from A Letter to the Treasurer of Spain, 1493
lvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca from La Relacin, 1530s
Melchor Daz from Reconnaissance, 1540
Bartolom de Las Casas On the Destruction of the Indies, 1540s
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King James I from The First Charter of Virginia, 1606
John Smith What Happened Till the First Supply, 16071614
Thomas Jones from The Journal of the Ship May-Flower, 1620
Quintin Stockwell from A Captivity Narrative, 1677
Inhabitants of New-Plimouth from The Book of the General Laws, 1685
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Samuel Sewell A Letter Regarding Relations with the Indians, 1700
Sir William Keith from A Short Discourse on the Present State of the
Jonathan Edwards from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, 1741
Olaudah Equiano from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
Lord Adam Gordon from How Our Cities Looked, 1765
Colonies, 1728
Equiano, 1750s
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Members of the British from Resolutions for American Duties, 1764
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Parliament
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Go Paul Revere from An Account of a Late Military Massacre, 1770
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Go Thomas Paine from Common Sense, 1776
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James Madison from Notes on Slavery at the Federal Convention,
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Go Benjamin Franklin On the Constitution, 1787
Go Tench Coxe On the Federal Government, 1787
Go Anonymous from The Federal Consitiution is Wisely Formed,
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Go Publius from Federalist 51, 1788
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L a u n c h i n g t h e N e w N a t i o n
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Go George Washington from Proclamation Regarding the Whiskey Rebellion,
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Go John Adams from Inaugural Address, 1797
Go Thomas Jefferson from A Letter to Meriwether Lewis, 1803
Go Meriwether Lewis from List of Requirements, 1803
Go U.S. Government from Louisiana Purchase Treaty, 1803
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B a l a n c i n g N a t i o n a l i s m a n d S e c t i o n a l i s m
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Go Charles Ball from A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of
Charles Ball, early 1800s
Go James Monroe from First Inaugural Address, 1817
Go John C. Calhoun from Address to the People of the United States,
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Go Andrew Jackson from Proclamation to the People of the United States,
1832
Go Andrew Jackson from A Message to Congress on Indian Policy, 1835
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R e f o r mi n g A me r i c a n S o c i e t y
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Go Harriet A. Jacobs from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, about 1820s
Go American Anti-Slavery from Declaration of Sentiments, 1833
Go Sarah Bagley from Pleasures of Factory Life, 1840
Go William J. Grayson The Question of Negro Slavery, 1850s
Society
Go Frederick Douglass from A Lecture on the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1855
Go Lucy Stone Disappointment Is the Lot of Women, 1855
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E x p a n d i n g Ma r k e t s a n d Mo v i n g We s t
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Go Robert Stuart from The Discovery of the Oregon Trail, 1812
Go Andrea Castan Villanueva Alamo Massacre, 1836
Go U.S. Government from Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
Go Herman Francis Reinhart from The Golden Frontier, 1851
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T h e U n i o n i n P e r i l
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Go Levi Coffin The Story of Eliza Harris, mid1800s
Go U.S. Government from Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Go Theodore Parker from The Function of Conscience, 1850
Go Harriet Tubman On Slavery, 1850s
Go Jefferson Davis from The Inaugural Address of the President of the
Provisional Government, 1861
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T h e C i v i l Wa r
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Go Robert E. Lee Letters to His Family, 1861
Go John S. Jackman from Diary of a Confederate Soldier, 18621863
Go George Fowle from Letters to Eliza from a Union Soldier, 1864
Go General William T . Sherman from A Letter to General John Bell Hood, 1864
Go General John Bell Hood from A Letter to General William T. Sherman, 1864
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R e c o n s t r u c t i o n a n d I t s E f f e c t s
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Go Mississippi State Legislature from Black Codes of Mississippi of 1865
Go U.S. Government Civil Rights Act of 1866
Go Thaddeus Stevens from An Address on Reconstruction, 1867
Go Annie Ruth Davis from An Interview with a Former Slave, 1870s
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C h a n g e s o n t h e We s t e r n F r o n t i e r
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Go J. D. C. Atkins On the Use of English in Indian Schools, 1887
Go Luther Standing Bear On the White Men, 1900s
Go Andy Adams from The Log of a Cowboy, 1903
Go Elinore Pruitt Stewart from Letters of a Woman Homesteader, 1913
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A N e w I n d u s t r i a l A g e
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Go Horatio Alger The Two Acre Lot, 1856
Go Samuel Gompers On the Goals of Trade Unions, 1883
Go Jennie Curtiss How Women Are Treated by the Pullman Company,
Go New York Times from 141 Die in Factory Fire, 1911
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I mmi g r a n t s a n d U r b a n i z a t i o n
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Go Anonymous Twelve Hundred More, 1870s
Go Israel Kasovich from The Days of Our Years, 1880s
Go U.S. Government from Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Go Jane Addams The Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for
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L i f e a t t h e T u r n o f t h e C e n t u r y
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Go Harpers Weekly from The Base-Ball Season, 1886
Go Charles E. Bolton from A Visit to the World s Columbian Exposition,
Go Ida B. Wells from The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, 1892
Go Frederick Dwight from Automobiles: The Other Side of the Shield, 1908
Go Lillian Gish from The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me, 1914
1892
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T h e P r o g r e s s i v e E r a
Ch a p t e r 1 7
Go U.S. Government from The United States v. Susan B. Anthony, 1873
Go E. W. Scripps from Whatever Is, Is Wrong, 1900s
Go Florence Kelley On the Need for Child Labor Laws, 1905
Go Frederick W. Taylor The Taylor System, 1912
Go Percy Andreae On Prohibition and Liberty, 1914
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Go Captain Charles D. Sigsbee from The Maine: An Account of Her Destruction,
Go Theodore Roosevelt from The Strenuous Life, 1899
Go Anti-Imperialist League Platform, 1899
Go Albert J. Beveridge On the War in the Philippines, 1900
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Woodrow Wilson Request for a Declaration of War, 1917
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Go Committee on Public Four-Minute Speech, 1918
Go Henry Cabot Lodge On the Terms of Peace, 1918
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Go Woodrow Wilson Why a League of Nations Is Necessary, 1919
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U.S. Department of Justice Instructions Regarding Conduct on Raids, 1920
Go Denver Post Senate Demands Information on Teapot Dome, 1922
Go Louis Marshall from A Letter Regarding Immigration Restrictions, 1924
Go Robert S. and from Middletown, 1929
P o l i t i c s o f t h e R o a r i n g T we n t i e s
Helen Merrell Lynd
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Samuel Hopkins Adams from My Bootlegger, 1921
Go Heywood Broun The Sultan of Swat Steals a World Series Show, 1923
Go Bruce Bliven from Flapper Jane, 1925
T h e R o a r i n g L i f e o f t h e 1 9 2 0 s
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New York Times On Minding Your Own Business, 1929
Go Anonymous Beans, Bacon, and Gravy, 1930s
Go Cesar Chavez Childhood During the Depression, 1930s
T h e Gr e a t D e p r e s s i o n B e g i n s
Go General Douglas MacArthur from A Report on the Employment of Federal Troops,
Go W. W. Waters from B.E.F.: The Whole Story of the Bonus Army,
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Go Eleanor Roosevelt from Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do,
Go Franklin Delano Roosevelt from Acceptance Speech, 1932
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Go Franklin Delano Roosevelt from First Inaugural Address, 1933
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Winston Churchill A Letter to Roosevelt, 1940
Go George A. Dondero from Are We Being Led Into War?, 1941
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Harry S. Truman The Truman Doctrine, 1947
Go General Douglas MacArthur Frustration in Korea, 1947
Go Paul Robeson Statement on Civil Liberties in America, 1956
Go Thamar E. Dufwa Life in a Shelter, 1963
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T h e P o s t Wa r B o o m
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Melba Pattillo Beals Desegregation at Central High School, 1957
Go Craig Rains Desegregation at Central High School, 1957
Go Michael Harrington from The Other America, 1962
Go Betty Friedan from The Feminine Mystique, 1963
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T h e N e w F r o n t i e r a n d t h e Gr e a t S o c i e t y
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John F. Kennedy and On the Space Program, 1961
Go Tom Wicker from That Day in Dallas, 1963
Go U.S. Government from Civil Rights Act of 1964
Go National Lawyers Guild from Citizens Guide to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Lyndon B. Johnson
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C i v i l R i g h t s
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Melba Pattillo Beals Desegregation at Central High School, 1957
Go Craig Rains Desegregation at Central High School, 1957
Go Martin Luther King, Jr. from Stride Toward Freedom, 1958
Go Malcolm X from A Speech to Mississippi Youth, 1964
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U.S. Government The Tonkin Gulf Resolution, 1964
Go Lyndon B. Johnson from Peace Without Conquest, 1965
Go City of Chicago from The Strategy of Confrontation, 1968
Go Presidential Commission on On the Kent State Tragedy, 1970
T h e V i e t n a m Wa r Y e a r s
Campus Unrest
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Cesar Chavez The Birth of La Causa, 1962
Go Betty Friedan from The Feminine Mystique, 1963
Go National Organization from NOWs Statement of Purpose, 1966
A n E r a o f S o c i a l C h a n g e
for Women
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House Judiciary Committee Articles of Impeachment, 1973
Go Reverend Jesse L. Jackson from Victim-Victimizer: Why Excel?, 1977
Go Jimmy Carter On Energy and National Goals, 1979
A n A g e o f L i mi t s
Environmental Leadership
Go People of Color Principles of Environmental Justice, 1991
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Ronald Reagan On the Program for Economic Recovery, 1981
Go Jeane J. Kirkpatrick from The United States and the World: Setting Limits,
Go Carlos Alberto Montaner Why Fear Spanish?, 1988
T h e C o n s e r v a t i v e T i d e
1986
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Bill Clinton from First Inaugural Address, 1993
Go Newt Gingrich A Contract with America, 1994
Go Organizing Committee of from Mission Statement, 1995
T h e U n i t e d S t a t e s i n T o d a y ' s Wo r l d
the Million Man March
Go Nicholas Negroponte from Being Digital, 1995
Go Studs Terkel from My American Century, 1997
Go Marian Wright Edelman from Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors, 1999
Go George W. Bush from Inaugural Address, 2001
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