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1790-1860:
Table Showing Data On the
Percentage of Urban Population, 1790 - 1860 |
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1810:
Sell a Country! Why Not Sell the Air? - Tecumseh
to General William Henry Harrison |
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1810:
Tecumseh
and Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, Speeches |
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1818:
Building
of the Erie Canal
- William H. Seward (1818-1825) |
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1823:
Captured By Indians- Mary Jemison Becomes an Indian |
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1823:
Johnson v. McIntosh |
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1823:
"The
Morality of Manufactures" - Nile's Weekly Register
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1823-1839:
Various documents on the removal of the Cherokee Nation
(additional documents) |
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1824:
Gottfried
Duden - Letters - Frontier and Wilderness Life (1824-1825) |
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1824:
Mexican Colonization Law |
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1825:
Peter
Skene Ogden's Journal of His Journey into Utah |
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1826:
Diet and Health of Frontier Women - Gottfried Dudden |
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1826:
The Expeditions of Jedediah Strong Smith
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1826:
The Last of the Mohicans
- James Fenimore Cooper |
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1827:
Elias Boudimott Proposes a Cherokee Newspaper |
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1827:
"View Near the Village of Catskill" - painting by Thomas Cole |
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1828:
Regulation for Colonization of Mexican Territories |
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1828:
Treaty
With the Potawatami |
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1830:
"Niagara Falls" - painting
by Thomas Cole |
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1831:
The Burlend Family Encounters America’s System for Populating the
West, Pike Country, IL |
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1831:
Cherokee
Nation v. Georgia |
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1832:
Autobiography
of John Ball - Across the Plains to Oregon |
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1832: Nathaniel
Wyeth's Journals of His Expeditions into the OR
Country (1832-1834) |
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1832:
Worcester
v. Georgia
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1833:
Life of Black Hawk |
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1834:
Letter by Davy Crockett on Andrew Jackson and Crockett's moving to
Texas |
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1835:
The Canal Boat - Nathaniel Hawthorne Travels the Erie Canal |
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1835:
Declaration of the People of Texas
(11/7) |
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1835:
"Nature's Wonderland" -
painting by Thomas Doughty |
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1836:
“Everything Here is New But the Forests” - Englishman Thomas Woodcock
Travels to Niagara on the Erie Canal |
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1836:
Land Speculation in the 1830s - William Leggitt |
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1836:
Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation |
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1836: Stephen
Austin - address delivered at Louisville |
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1836:
Texas
Declaration of Independence |
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1836:
Treaty of Velasco
- between the U. S. and Mexico |
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1836:
William
Travis' Letter From the Commandancy of the Alamo
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1837:
Steps of Expansion -
José María Tomel y Mendívil, "Relations Between Texas, The United
States of America and the Mexican Republic," (Mexico) |
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1839:
"Manifest
Destiny" - John L. O'Sullivan |
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1839:
Poster circulated in Philadelphia to discourage the
coming of the railroad |
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1840:
An American View of Mexican California - Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
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1840:
"Fenimore
Cooper's Libels on America and Americans" - anonymous |
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1841:
The
Deerslayer; or, The First Warpath . . . - James Fenimore
Cooper |
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1842:
“A Foreigner in My Own Land” - Juan Nepomuceno Seguin Flees Texas |
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1842:
Webster-Ashburton
Treaty |
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1843:
Democracy and Liberty - Orestes Brownson |
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1844:
Across the Plains in 1844 - from the journals of Catherine Sager
Pringle |
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1844:
Democratic Party Platform
Whig Party Platform |
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1844:
George Caitlin's North American Indian Portfolio |
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1844:
"Martyrdom
of Joseph & Hiram Smith in Carthage Jail" - lithograph |
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1844:
"Mr. Van Buren" - The United States Democratic Review / Volume
15, Issue 73, July 1844 |
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1844:
"Native Americanism" -The Tribune. v. 4. n. 186
(11/11) |
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1844:
"The Re-Annexation of Texas, in its Influence on the Duration of
Slavery" - The United States Democratic Review / Volume 15,
Issue 73, July 1844 |
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1845:
"American Enterprise in Steam Navigation" - The American Whig
Review / Volume 2, Issue 1,
July 1845
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1845:
Congressional Resolution for Texas Annexation
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1845:
Daily Wage
Rates on the Erie Canal, 1845-1870 - statistical chart |
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1845:
"The
Great Nation of Futurity" - John L. O'Sullivan |
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1845:
Inaugural Address of
James K. Polk |
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1845:
"Mr.
Clay - The Texas Question" - The American Whig Review / Volume
1, Issue 1, Jan 1845 |
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1845:
"The Oregon Question" - The United States Democratic Review /
Volume 16, Issue 84, June 1845 |
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1845:
"The Tariff Question" - The American Whig Review / Volume 2,
Issue 2, August 1845 |
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1845:
Resolution Annexing Texas to the United States
(3/1) |
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1845:
"Territorial Aggrandizement" - The United States Democratic Review
/ Volume 17, Issue 88,
October |
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1845:
Treaty
for the Annexation of Texas (March 1, 1845) |
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1845:
"The Whig Party, Its Position, and Duties" - The American Whig
Review / Volume 2, Issue 6, December |
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1845:
"Will There Be War with Mexico?" - The American Whig Review /
Volume 2, Issue 3, September 1845 |
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1846:
"Administration of Indian Affairs" - The United States Democratic
Review / Volume 18, Issue 95, May |
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1846:
"Boatmen on the Missouri" - painting by George Caleb |
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1846:
“A Hungery Savage Look which was Truly Fearful” - Samuel Chamberlain’s
Recollections of
the Mexican War |
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1846:
The
Mexican War & Slavery - political cartoons (1846-1848) |
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1846:
“More Like A Pig Than a Bear ”- Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Is Taken
Prisoner During the Bear Flag Revolt |
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1846:
"The Oregon Question: War and Peace" - The American Whig Review
/ Volume 3, Issue 2, February 1846 |
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1846:
The
Oregon Treaty |
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1846:
"The Oregon Treaty" - The American Whig Review / Volume 4,
Issue 2, August |
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1846:
President
Polk's War Message |
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1846:
"Table
of the new rates of toll on the Erie canal, as established by the
canal board, and in
effect on said canal" - broadside |
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1846:
Wilmot
Proviso
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1847:
"Against
the Mexican War" - Thomas Corwin |
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1847:
David
Wilmot Argues for a Free California |
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1847:
The Donner
Party's Log Entries (Jan., 1847) |
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1847:
Elizabeth
Dixon Smith Geer, pioneer journal (1847-1850) -
full journal entries |
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1847:
“For Oregon!” - Settlers From Illinois Describe the New Territory |
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1847:
Mexican War - assorted doc. (PBS) |
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1847:
"The Mexican War - Its Origin and Conduct" - The United States
Democratic Review / Volume 20, Issue 106, April |
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1847:
"Sam Houston and his Republic" - The American Whig Review /
Volume 5, Issue 6, Jun 1847 |
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1847:
"Mr. Slidell's Mission to Mexico" - The American Whig Review /
Volume 5, Issue 4, Apr 1847 |
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1847:
"The President's Message: The War" - The American Whig Review /
Volume 5, Issue 1, Jan 1847 |
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1847:
"The Whigs and the War" - The American Whig Review / Volume 6,
Issue 4, Oct 1847 |
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1848:
"The Administration: its Treatment of General Scott" - The American
Whig Review / Volume 7 Issue 6, June 1848 |
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1848:
Democratic Party Platform
Whig Party Platform |
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1848:
"The Leg I Left Behind Me" - song on the Mexican War |
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1848:
Letter by Abraham Lincoln on the Mexican War |
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1848:
"The Mexican War - Its Origin, its Justice and its Consequences" -
The United States Democratic Review / Volume 22, Issue 115, Jan
1848 |
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1848:
"Necessity of Party - The Press - The Locofoco Platform" - The
American Whig Review Volume 8, Issue 1, July 1848 |
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1848:
"The Nomination: General Taylor" - The American Whig Review /
Volume 8, Issue 1, July 1848 |
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1848:
"The
Peaceable Kingdom" - painting by Edward Hicks |
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1848:
Present at the Beginning of the Gold Rush - Journalist Edward Gould
Buffum Pans Gold in California |
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1848:
“A Rush to the Gold
Washings,” from the California Star
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1848:
"Calhoun's
Speech against the Conquest of Mexico" - The American Whig Review
/ Volume 7, Issue , Mar 1848 |
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1848:
"The President and his Administration" - The American Whig Review
/ Volume 7, Issue 5, May 1848 |
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1848:
"To
the West!" song lyrics |
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1848:
Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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1848:
"The
War: The New Issue" - The American Whig Review / Volume 7,
Issue 2, Feb 1848 |
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1848:
"The Whigs and their Candidate" - The American Whig Review /
Volume 8, Issue 3, Sept 1848 |
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1848: William
Porter's Oregon Trail Diary |
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1849:
Adventures of an Overland Journey to California -
Alonzo Delano |
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1849:
"Californian Gold" - The United States Democratic Review /
Volume 24, Issue 127, January 1849 |
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1849:
The
Constitution of the State of Deseret - the Mormons (7/18) |
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1849:
"The
Days of '49"
- song about the CA Gold Rush (MP3 file) |
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1849:
From the Diary of
Alvin Coffey, African American 49er
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1849:
Inaugural Address of Zachary Taylor |
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1849:
Luzena Wilson's View of the Overland Trek |
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1849:
Miner’s Ten
Commandments |
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1849:
"We,
the undersigned, citizens of the United States, being about to leave
our homes for
California, for the purpose of mining and digging gold
... have agreed to unite together and form
an association" - broadside |
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1850s:
"Paddy Works
on the Erie" - song lyrics by John Renfro Davis |
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1850:
California- A Trip Across the Plains -
James Abbey |
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1850: Clayton-Bulwer
Treaty |
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1850:
New Railroad
Mileage Charts (by region), 1850-1860 |
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1850:
Six Months in the Gold Mines - Edward Gould Buffum |
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1850:
William Swain Letter written from "The Diggings" in California |
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1851:
“Dame Shirley” Describes Life at a California Gold
Mining Camp in the Sierra Nevada Mountains |
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1852:
Democratic Party Platform
Whig Party Platform |
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1852:
Harriet Scott Palmer on Crossing the Great Plains |
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1852:
“This Muddy Place” - Mary Ballou, a Boardinghouse Keeper in the
California Gold Rush |
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1852:
Treaty with the Apache (7/1) |
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1852:
“We Are Not the Degraded Race You Would Make Us” -
Norman Asing Challenges Chinese
Immigration Restrictions |
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1852:
White
and Chinese miners hoping to strike it rich during the California Gold
Rush at Auburn Ravine (photo) |
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1853:
Gadsden
Purchase Treaty |
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1853:
"The
Monroe Doctrine versus The Clayton and Bulwer Treaty (an expose)" -
The United States Democratic Review / Volume 32, Issue 3, Mar 1853
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1853:
"Progress (The Advance
of Civilization)" - a painting by Asher Brown Durand |
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1854:
Chief
Seattle, Oration |
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1854:
Letter from Brigham Young to Thomas Kane |
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1854:
Treaty
of Washington, DC with the Kickapoo Indians (5/18) |
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1855:
Female Life Among the Mormons - Maria Ward |
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1855:
The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction - Hinton H.
Helper |
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1856:
"Hiawatha" - a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
illustrated by John Rea Neill |
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1857:
The Discovery of
Gold in California by Gen. John Sutter |
|
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1856:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform
Whig Party Platform |
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1857:
"The Miner's
Song" |
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1858:
"Abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty - Central America, Mexico,
and Cuba" - The United States Democratic Review / Volume 42,
Issue 6, December 1858 |
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1858:
"Democratic Policy - The Empire" - The United States Democratic
Review / Volume 42, Issue 5, November 1858 |
|
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1858:
"The Fate of the Tejanos" from
Personal Memoirs of John N. Seguín |
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1859:
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, "Mexicans!" |
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1860:
"The Cradle
and Manner of Using It" - political cartoon about the Chinese and the
Gold Rush
Hutchings California Magazine
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1860:
An Overland Journey - Horace Greeley |
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1872:
"American Progress" -
painting by John Gast (about Manifest Destiny) |
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1885:
Causes of the Mexican War - U. S. Grant (from his memoirs) |
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1950:
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth - Henry
Nash Smith |
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2000:
"1849" song lyrics by Mike Bliss of The Elders |
