| Description |
342 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
History of US ; bk. 11 |
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Hakim, Joy.
History of US (2005) ; bk. 11.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 289) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Magna Carta -- Bartolome de Las Casas, "of the Island of Hispanola," in very brief account of the devastation of the Indies (1542) -- From an anonymous Aztec chronicler in Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, general history of things in new Spain (1582) -- Mayflower compact (1620) -- Massachusetts school laws (1642 and 1647) -- From Roger Williams, letter to Providence (1655) -- Resolution of the Germantown Quakers (1688) -- From the English bill of rights (1689) -- From Benjamin Franklin, poor Richard's Almanack (1733) -- Resolutions of the stamp act congress (1765) -- From Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!" : Speech to the Virginia convention (1775) -- Memorial of the Presbytery of Hanover (1776) -- From Thomas Paine, common sense (1776) -- Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (1776) -- From Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams (1776) -- Articles of Confederation (1778) -- From Thomas Jefferson, notes on the State of Virginia (1785) -- From J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, "What is an American?" : Letters from American farmer, letter III (1782) -- From Thomas Jefferson, The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786) -- The constitution of the United States (1787) -- From the Northwest Ordinance (1787) -- From Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, The Federalist, nos. 1, 10, and 51 (1788) -- George Washington, Inaugural Address (1789) -- George Washington, letter to Moses Seixas (1790) -- George Washington, letter to the new church in Baltimore (1793) -- From George Washington, farewell address (1796) -- From Thomas Jefferson, first Inaugural address (1801) -- From Thomas Jefferson, letter to Danbury Baptist Association (1802) -- From John Marshall, opinion in Marbury v Madison (1803) -- From Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha), address to the Iroquois confederacy and missionary Cram (1805) -- From Meriwether Lewis, report to Thomas Jefferson (1806) -- From John Marshall, opinion in McCulloch v Maryland (1819) -- James Monroe, The Monroe doctrine (1823) -- From memorial of the Cherokee Nation (1830) -- From William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, vol. 1, 1 (1831) -- From a North Carolina law forbidding the teaching of slaves to read and write (1831) -- From Andrew Jackson, proclamation to the people of South Carolina (1832) -- From Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in American (1835) -- From Ralph Waldo Emerson, self-reliance (1841) -- From John L. O'Sullivan, editorial on Manifest Destiny (1845) -- From Horace Mann, 12th annual report to the Massachusetts board of education (1848) -- From Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Let Us Consider Man's Superiority" : Address to the Seneca Falls conference (1848) -- From declaration of sentiments (1848) -- From Henry David Thoreau, Civil disobedience (1849) -- From John C. Calhoun, "Proposal to Preserve the Union" : Speech on the compromise of 1850 (1850) -- From Sojourner Truth, "A'n't I a Woman" :Address to the Women's Rights convention, Akron, Ohio (1851) -- From Frederick Douglass, Fourth of July Oration (1852) -- From Roger Taney, opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) -- From Abraham Lincoln, "A House Divided": Address to the Illinois Republican convention (1858) -- From Abraham Lincoln, debate with Stephen Douglas (1858) -- John Brown, last statement to the court (1859) -- From the homestead act (1862) -- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) -- Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation proclamation (1863) -- Abraham Lincoln, second inaugural address (1865) -- Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, letters setting terms of Lee's surrender at Appomattox (1865) -- Robert E. lee, farewell to his army (1865) -- From Susan B. Anthony, "Are Women Persons?" :Address after her arrest for illegal voting (1873) -- Preamble to the constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878) -- From John Wesley Powell, report on the Arid Region of the West (1878) -- Chief Joseph (Inmutooyahlatlat), "I will Fight No More forever" : Speech to the U.S. Army (1877) -- From Chief Joseph (Inmutooyahlatlat), address in Washington (1879) -- From Stanley Matthews, opinion on Yick Wo v. Hopkins, Sheriff, etc. (1886) -- From Andrew Carnegie, wealth (1889) -- From Preamble to the Platform of the Populist party (1892) -- The Pledge of Allegiance (1892, revised 1923 and 1954) -- From Booker T. Washington, address at the Atlanta exposition (1895) -- From John Marshall Harlan, dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -- William McKinley, war message (1898) -- From Theodore Roosevelt, The Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe doctrine (1904) -- From declaration of the conservation conference (1908) -- From Woodrow Wilson, first Inaugural address (1913) -- From Woodrow Wilson, war message (1917) -- Woodrow Wilson, "The Fourteen Points" : Address to congress (1918) -- Herbert Hoover, "Rugged Individualism" : Campaign speech in New York city (1928) -- From Franklin D. Roosevelt, "The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself" : First Inaugural address (1933) -- Emma Lazarus, the new colossus (1935) -- From Harlan F. Stone, dissenting opinion in Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, message asking for war against Japan (1941) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, "The Four Freedoms" : Message to Congress (1941) -- From Robert Jackson, opinion in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) -- Learned hand, "The spirit of Liberty" : address on "I Am American Day" (1944) -- From Harry S. Truman, "The Truman doctrine" : Message to congress (1947) -- Harry S. Truman, statement on the atomic bomb (1950) -- Margaret Chase Smith, declaration of conscience (1950) -- From Dwight D. Eisenhower, farewell address to the American people (1961) -- John F. Kennedy, "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You" : Inaugural address (1961) -- Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" :Address at the march on Washington (1963) -- From Martin Luther King, Jr., "Why We Can't Wait' : Letter from Birmingham city Jail (1963) -- From the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1964) -- From the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (1965) -- From Hugo L. Black, opinion in New York times Co. v. United States (1971) -- From Ronald Reagan, speech at Moscow State University (1988) -- Presidents of the United States -- Glossary -- Document sources -- Series index. |
| Summary |
Contains source documents for American history, and the series index. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
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| Added Title |
Documents that shaped the American nation |
| ISBN |
0195189035 (hc.) |
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9780195189032 (hc.) |
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