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The United States had just proved skilled at defending itself from a world class and capable aggressor, Great Britain. The rest of the world was taking note. The “American Dream” of freedom and owning land, caused a tidal wave of dreamers with skills sweeping onto American shores.
The Republic of Texas would be born with a battle cry, “Remember the Alamo!” Western settlements would reach into Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Michigan, and increase up and down the mighty Mississippi.
More land was needed for the challenges of growth as new states were being conceived to join the American Republic. The questions over whether slavery would be allowed in new territories and states only stoked an already heated debate, which was politically tearing the young nation apart.
Political and military legends would be born from this era. President Andrew Jackson would make his mark on history along with a former Congressman and frontiersman Davy Crockett. First generation Texans, Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Jim Bowie, are among those names highly recognized. But other names would emerge along with religious pioneering and those settling among Native American lands. Learn from their original voices found in letters, diaries, and official documents in this sixth work of original sources by PowerThink Publishing, Developing Nation and Texas, Volume 6.
Included Works:
Who Reads an American Book by Sidney Smith
The Missouri Compromise by James G. Blaine
An Apprehensive View of the Missouri Compromise by Thomas Jefferson
A Northern View of the Missouri Compromise by John Quincy Adams
A Moderate View of the Missouri Compromise by Hezikiah Niles
How a Log Cabin was Built by Unknown
The First Seminole War by James Parton
The Monroe Doctrine by James Monroe
Lafayette Revisits America by Thurlow Weed
Lafayette's Triumphal Tour in 1824 by Thomas H. Benton
The Spoils System at Work by Colonel Thomas Lorraine McKenney
Jefferson's Estimate of Patrick Henry by Daniel Webster
Pushmataha to John C. Calhoun by Pushmataha
The Erie Canal Celebration and Other Canals by James Schouler
Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration by Samuel Goodrich
The Panama Mission by James Schouler
The Issue in the Revolution by Everett
Webster's First Bunker Hill Monument Oration by Daniel Webster
The Duel Between Clay and John Randolph of Roanoke by Thomas H. Benton
Death of Adams and Jefferson on the Same Day by Thomas H. Benton
Jackson's First Election as President by James Parton
Nullification and its Overthrow by Theodore Roosevelt
The Turbulent Presidential Election of 1828 by Thomas H. Benton
The First American Locomotive by John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe
The Jackson-Calhoun Break by Jackson and Calhoun
Pioneering Against Slavery by William Lloyd Garrison
The Northwest Ordinance by Nathan Dane
The Foote Resolution by Hayne
Webster's Reply to Hayne by Daniel Webster
The Rupture Between Jackson and Calhoun by Thomas H. Benton
The Webster-Hayne Debate by James Schouler
How the Federal Union Worked to the Injury of the South by Thomas H. Benton
Garrison and His Liberator by Goldwin Smith
Three Northern Views of the Abolitionists by James G. Blaine
Calhoun's Views of Slavery, His Character, and His Personality by John S. Jenkins
The Black Hawk War by Reuben Gold Thwaites
The Overthrow of the United States Bank by Theodore Roosevelt
The Discovery of the Source of the Mississippi as in Lake Itasca by Henry R. Schoolcraft
Beyond the Mississippi Eighty Years Ago by Washington Irving
An Argument Upholding Slavery by Thomas Roderic Dew
Improving Transportation by Frances Anne Kemble
Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States by Alexander Hamilton
The Black Hawk War by Black Hawk
Why the United States Bank Was Closed by Andrew Jackson
Slave-Breaking in the South by Frederick Douglass
The First Anti-Slavery Convention by John G. Whittier
A State's Right to Leave the Union by John C. Calhoun
Chicago as a Growing Village by Patrick Shirreff
Jacksons' Farewell Address by Andrew Jackson
Principles of Executive Government by Andrew Jackson
Clays' Attack on Jackson by Henry Clay
Transmitting Anti-Slavery Mail by Amos Kendall
The Last Seminole War by Thomas H. Benton
The Death of Lafayette by Sargent S. Prentiss
The Mobbing of Garrison in the Streets of Boston by William Lloyd Garrison
How Texas Became Independent by Theodore Roosevelt
Houston's Seizure of Texas by Horace Greeley
The Battle of San Jacinto by Cyrus Townsend Brady
The Fall of the Alamo by Captain R. M. Potter
The Crushing of the Creeks by William Schley
The Battle of San Jacinto by General Sam Houston
The Panic of 1837 by Edward M. Shepard
The Annexation of Texas by James Schouler
Why the Annexation of Texas was Opposed by William Ellery Channing, D. D.
Abolition Incites the Murder of Lovejoy by Horace Greeley
Effects of the Panic of 1837 by Captain Frederick Marryat
The Murder of Lovejoy by Wendell Phillips
The Expunging Resolution by Benton
The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Expunging Resolution by Calhoun
The "Log-Cabin and Hard Cider" Campaign by Horace Greeley
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty Forecasts the Fate of Texas by Unknown
Dickens Visits America by Charles Dickens
Treaty with Great Britain, 1842 by The U.S. and British Governments
Dorr's Rebellion in Rhode Island by C. C. Jewett
Emigration Into Oregon by Thomas H. Benton
The Invention of the Telegraph by Samuel F. B. Morse
Morse's First Telegraph Line by Alonzo B. Cornell
Howe's Invention of the Sewing Machine by Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia
War with Mexico Declared by James G. Blaine
How Texas Was Annexed by Thomas H. Benton
The Mormon Exodus to Utah by Brigham H. Roberts
The Mormon Migration to Utah by William A. Linn
Dr. Morton's Introduction of Anesthetic Ether by Encyclopedia Britannica
Bonus: Includes a FREE download of the book in electronic format for use with your computer or Mobile device.
Reviews:
“This is pure history, without all the filters of contemporary interpretation. These books will be a welcome addition to the library of anyone who wants to better understand where America as come from--and where we should be now.”
-Jay A. Parry, author, The Real George Washington
My Father W. Cleon Skousen, author of The Five Thousand Year Leap, would call this must-have collection of original source documents nothing short of pure gold of the rarest kind. This resource would have spared him decades of clawing through untold stacks and volumes of materials during his research and writing years. He would have treasured these books for that very purpose, and joins me in highly recommending these volumes to scholars and casual readers alike; anyone looking for accurate answers to difficult questions about America, freedom, and our era of unprecedented prosperity.
-Paul Skousen, author, speaker, CIA analyst, and Reagan White House intelligence officer
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