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United States History - Primary Resources

National Expansion and Reform 1815-1860

13th Amendment to the Constitution (1865)
14th Amendment to the Constitution
15th Amendment to the Constitution (1870)
An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas
The American West, 1860-1900
Atlases - History Department at the United States Military Academy - Mexican War Maps
Charting North America: Maps for the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection and Others
Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia (1831)
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
Compromise of 1850 (1859)
David Rumsey Map Collection
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
Evolution of the Conservative Movement, 1850-1920
Frederick Law Olmsted - A Journey in the Seaboard States (1856)
The Frontier in American History
Gadsden Purchase Treaty: December 30, 1853
A Guide to the Mexican War
The Hard Road to Texas
Hispanic-Heritage Links (Enlances a Documentos Acerca de Herencia Hispana) Western Exploration and Expansion
Indian Removal Act (1930)
John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid
American Battlefield Trust
John L. O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny, 1839
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Letter from the Commandancy of the Alamo 1836
Manifest Destiny and Expansion in the Americas
The Mexican-American War Memorial Homepage
This Site is Sponsored by the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and is Available in English and Spanish
Military Resources: Mexican War, 1846-1848
The Missouri Compromise (1820)
Music for the Nation: Sheet Music, ca. 1820-1860
National Expansion and Reform, 1850 - 1880
Nullification Proclamation (1832)
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Historical Maps of the United States
Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books form Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910
Pony Express
Railroad Maps 1828-1900
Schurz, Carl, "Manifest Destingy," Harpers New Monthly Magazine, vol. 87, issue 521 (October, 1893)
The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893
Texas - From Independence to Annexation
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidago, February 2, 1848
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidagp
Treaty of Velasco, 14 May, 1836
Treaty with Russia for the Purchase of Alaska 1867
U.S.-Mexican War
A Site Rich in the History of the War, by the Descendants of Mexican War Veterans. Read Battle Plans and Orders, Peruse letters, and See Images of the War and Veterans.
U.S. - Mexican War: The Zachary Taylor Encampment in Corpus Christi
United States Foreign Policy Timeline
War Message of President Polk, May 11, 1846
Women's Suffrage Pictures 1850 - 1920
WWW-VL: The American West - Manifest Destiny

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