This document appears to be a collection of excerpts from various historical documents related to the theme of the American Dream. It includes a table of contents listing sub-themes such as Science and Technology, Economic Opportunity, Women and Political Power, Diversity and the National Identity, Immigration and Migration, and America in World Affairs. Each sub-theme contains multiple selections ranging in date from the 15th century to the early 2000s. Clicking "Forward" reveals additional excerpts under each sub-theme relating to the development of the United States.
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This document appears to be a collection of excerpts from various historical documents related to the theme of the American Dream. It includes a table of contents listing sub-themes such as Science and Technology, Economic Opportunity, Women and Political Power, Diversity and the National Identity, Immigration and Migration, and America in World Affairs. Each sub-theme contains multiple selections ranging in date from the 15th century to the early 2000s. Clicking "Forward" reveals additional excerpts under each sub-theme relating to the development of the United States.
This document appears to be a collection of excerpts from various historical documents related to the theme of the American Dream. It includes a table of contents listing sub-themes such as Science and Technology, Economic Opportunity, Women and Political Power, Diversity and the National Identity, Immigration and Migration, and America in World Affairs. Each sub-theme contains multiple selections ranging in date from the 15th century to the early 2000s. Clicking "Forward" reveals additional excerpts under each sub-theme relating to the development of the United States.
Unit Seven: 19311960 Unit Six: 19191940 Unit Five: 18901920 Unit Four: 18771917 Unit Three: 18251877 Unit Two: 17811850 Unit One: Beginnings1783 CHRONOLOGY Science and Technology Economic Opportunity Women and Political Power Diversity and the National Identity The American Dream CONTENTS THEME America in World Affairs Voting Rights Civil Rights Immigration and Migration States' Rights Help Keyword 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more American Dream selections. The American Dream 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go 1832 Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more American Dream selections. Back Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more American Dream selections. Back The American Dream 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Provisional Government, 1861 Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more American Dream selections. Back The American Dream 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go 1894 Information Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more American Dream selections. Back The American Dream 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Merrell Lynd Contents Help Keyword Back 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 Go Go Go Go Go Organizing Committee of from Mission Statement, 1995 Go the Million Man March Contents Studs Terkel from My American Century, 1997 Marian Wright Edelman from Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors, 1999 George W. Bush Inaugural Address, 2001 Go Go Go Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more Science and Technology selections. Science and Technology 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Contents Help Keyword Back 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 Go Go Go Go Environmental Leadership Lyndon B. Johnson Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more Economic Opportunity selections. 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go British Parliament Colonies, 1728 Colonies, 1728 Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more Economic Opportunity selections. Back Economic Opportunity 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Contents Help Keyword Back 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Contents the Million Man March Help Keyword 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Anthony, 1873 Women, 1906 1928 for Women Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more Diversity and the National Identity selections. Diversity and the National Identity 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Contents Help Keyword Back 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 Go Go Go National Defense Migration Hearings, 1942 Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more Immigration and Migration selections. 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Contents Help Keyword Back 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more States' Rights selections. 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Provisional Government, 1861 Contents States' Rights Help Keyword Back 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go National Defense Migration Hearings, 1942 House Judiciary Committee Articles of Impeachment, 1973 Go Contents States' Rights Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more Voting Rights selections. 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Voting Rights Parliament Sons of Liberty of New York Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more Voting Rights selections. Back 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Voting Rights 1794 Anthony, 1873 Contents Help Keyword Back 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 Go Go Go Go Voting Rights for Women, 1906 Do, 1928 Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more Civil Rights selections. Civil Rights 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Charles Ball, early 1800s Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more Civil Rights selections. Back 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Civil Rights National Defense Migration Hearings, 1942 Contents 1932 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 Go Go Go Go Civil Rights Help Keyword Back Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more America in World Affairs selections. 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go America in World Affairs Contents Help Keyword Forward Click Forward for more America in World Affairs selections. Back 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 Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go America in World Affairs Contents Help Keyword Back 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, Go Go Go Go Go Go America in World Affairs 1986 Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Three Worlds Meet The American Colonies Emerge The Colonies Come of Age The War for Independence Go Go Go Go Help Keyword Unit 1 Beginnings1783 Contents Help Keyword Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Shaping a New Nation Launching the New Nation Balancing Nationalism and Sectionalism Reforming American Society Go Go Go Go Unit 2 17811850 Contents Help Keyword Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Expanding Markets and Moving West The Union in Peril The Civil War Reconstruction and Its Effects Go Go Go Go Unit 3 18251877 Contents Help Keyword Chapter 13 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 Go Go Go Go Unit 4 18771917 Contents Help Keyword Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 The Progressive Era America Claims an Empire The First World War Go Go Go Unit 5 18901920 Contents Help Keyword Unit 6 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 Go Go Go Go Contents Help Keyword Unit 7 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 Go Go Go Go Contents Help Keyword 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 Go Go Go Go Contents Help Keyword Unit 9 19682001 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 An Age of Limits The Conservative Tide The United States in Today's World Go Go Go Contents Help Keyword 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 Ch a p t e r 1 Go Go Go Go Go Back Contents Help Keyword Back 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 Go Go Go Go Go T h e A me r i c a n C o l o n i e s E me r g e Ch a p t e r 2 Contents Help Keyword Back Go Go Go Go Go T h e C o l o n i e s C o me o f A g e 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 Ch a p t e r 3 Contents Help Keyword Back Go T h e Wa r f o r I n d e p e n d e n c e Members of the British from Resolutions for American Duties, 1764 Ch a p t e r 4 Parliament Go Benjamin Franklin The Mother Country, 1765 Go Paul Revere from An Account of a Late Military Massacre, 1770 Go Association of the Sons of from Resolutions, 1773 Liberty of New York Go Thomas Paine from Common Sense, 1776 Contents Help Keyword Back Go S h a p i n g a N e w N a t i o n James Madison from Notes on Slavery at the Federal Convention, Ch a p t e r 5 1787 Go Benjamin Franklin On the Constitution, 1787 Go Tench Coxe On the Federal Government, 1787 Go Anonymous from The Federal Consitiution is Wisely Formed, 1788 Go Publius from Federalist 51, 1788 Contents Help Keyword Back L a u n c h i n g t h e N e w N a t i o n Ch a p t e r 6 Go George Washington from Proclamation Regarding the Whiskey Rebellion, 1794 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 Contents Help Keyword Back 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 Ch a p t e r 7 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, 1832 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 Contents Help Keyword Back R e f o r mi n g A me r i c a n S o c i e t y Ch a p t e r 8 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 Contents Help Keyword Back 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 Ch a p t e r 9 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 Contents Help Keyword Back T h e U n i o n i n P e r i l Ch a p t e r 1 0 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 Contents Help Keyword Back T h e C i v i l Wa r Ch a p t e r 1 1 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 Contents Help Keyword Back 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 Ch a p t e r 1 2 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 Contents Help Keyword Back 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 Ch a p t e r 1 3 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 Contents Help Keyword Back A N e w I n d u s t r i a l A g e Ch a p t e r 1 4 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 1894 Contents Help Keyword Back I mmi g r a n t s a n d U r b a n i z a t i o n Ch a p t e r 1 5 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 Women, 1906 Contents Help Keyword Back 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 Ch a p t e r 1 6 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 Contents Help Keyword Back 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 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 1 8 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 1898 A me r i c a C l a i ms A n E mp i r e Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 1 9 Go Woodrow Wilson Request for a Declaration of War, 1917 Go Arthur Little From Harlem to the Rhine, 1918 Go Committee on Public Four-Minute Speech, 1918 Go Henry Cabot Lodge On the Terms of Peace, 1918 T h e F i r s t Wo r l d Wa r Go Woodrow Wilson Why a League of Nations Is Necessary, 1919 Information Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 2 0 Go 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 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 2 1 Go 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 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 2 2 Go 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, 1932 1932 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 2 3 Go Mary McLeod Bethune How Bethune-Cookman College Began, 1900s Go Eleanor Roosevelt from Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do, Go Franklin Delano Roosevelt from Acceptance Speech, 1932 T h e N e w D e a l Go Franklin Delano Roosevelt from First Inaugural Address, 1933 1928 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 2 4 Go Winston Churchill A Letter to Roosevelt, 1940 Go George A. Dondero from Are We Being Led Into War?, 1941 Go New York Times from Let Us Face the Truth, 1941 Wo r l d Wa r L o o ms Go Franklin Delano Roosevelt On the Declaration of War, 1941 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 2 5 Go Office of Civilian Defense What Can I Do?, 1942 Go U.S. Government Japanese-American Testimony from the National Go General George S. Patton, Jr from Instructions to the Third United States Army, 1944 T h e U n i t e d S t a t e s i n Wo r l d Wa r I I Go Harry S. Truman Statement on the Atomic Bomb, 1945 Defense Migration Hearings, 1942 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 2 6 C o l d Wa r C o n f l i c t s Go 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 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 2 7 T h e P o s t Wa r B o o m Go 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 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 2 8 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 Go 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 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 2 9 C i v i l R i g h t s Go 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 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 3 0 Go 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 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 3 1 Go 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 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 3 2 Go 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 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 3 3 Go 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 Contents Help Keyword Back Ch a p t e r 3 4 Go 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 Contents
The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt. Illustrated: The Naval War of 1812, The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt, Good Hunting: In Pursuit of Big Game in the West, African Game Trails, The Strenuous Life