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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Early US History
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Contents
The United States Emerges
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Political Institutions
- Inaugural Addresses of US Presidents,
1789-1997, Index [At this Site]
- Blackstone's Commentaries, with
notes by St. George Tucker, 1803, full text [Was At Constitution.org, now Internet Archive]
- James Kent: Commentaries on American Law, 1826, full text [Was At Constitution.org, now Internet Archive]
- WEB US Supreme Court Decisions [At Justicia] [Internet Archive backup here]
- Cases of John Marshall (1755-1835: Chief Justice, 1801-1835)[At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
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Economic Development
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Expansion and Manifest Destiny
- WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy -Pre-1898 [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
- WEB British American Diplomacy,
1782-1863 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- WEB West Web [Was At CSI/CUNY, now Internet Arhive]
Was as superb resource for all aspects of the American West. Still useful.
- Map: Borders of the Contiguous States
An animated presentation of states as the joined the Union.
- Wikipedia: Territorial evolution of the United States
Chronology and maps.
- The Sex Ratio Males per 100 Females, United States, 1790-1990, animation [At WWU] [Internet Archive backup here]
- The Northwest Ordinance, 1787 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
or here [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
- Virginia Resolution, 1798 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
- Kentucky Resolution, 1799 [At American Revolution][Internet Archive backup here]
- Treaty of San Ildefonso :
October 1, 1800 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
Preliminary and Secret Treaty between the French Republic and His Catholic Majesty the
King of Spain, Concerning the Aggrandizement of His Royal Highness the Infant Duke of
Parma in Italy and the Retrocession of Louisiana.
- Louisiana Purchase Documents , First Convention, and Second Convention, 1803 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- WEB War of 1812 and Associated Documents [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
The failed effort to grab Canada.
- Treaty of Ghent,
1814 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
Ending the 1812 War.
- Exchange of Notes Relative to Naval Forces on the American Lakes: 1817 and Associated Documents
[At Yale][Internet Archive backup here]
- United States-Spain: Treaty of 1819 [At this Site] [Internet Archive backup here]
By which the US acquired Florida.
- Monroe Doctrine, 1823 [At
Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
and here [At
American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
- Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia, 1831 [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
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Black Hawk [Ma-ka-ta-i-me-sh-a-kiak] (1767-1838): Surrender Speech1832
[Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
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Washington Irving: A Tour on the Prairies, 1835 [Was At Virginia, now Internet Archive]
- WEB Texas From Independence to Annexation, 1836-1846 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- The Texas Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1836 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- US- Mexico, Treaty of Velasco,
14 May 1836 [At
Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- John L. O'Sullivan: The Democratic Principle 1838 [Was At Furman, now [Internet Archive]
- John L. O'Sullivan: On Manifest Destiny, 1839 [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
- Treaty with Great Britain, in Regard to Limits Westward of the Rocky Mountains, 1846 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- The Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, 2 Feb 1848 [At this
Site]
The United States siezes roughly half the land area of Mexico.
- Wikipedia: Nonintercourse Act 1790, 1793, 1796, 1799, 1802, and 1834
- Wikipedia: Oklahoma Territory
- Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 [At
Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- Gadsden Purchase Treaty,
December 30, 1853 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- Treaty for the Final Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural Companies,
July 1, 1863 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- Treaty With Russia,
1867 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
The United States' aquistion of Alaska.
- William Barret Travis: Letter from the commandancy of the Alamo, 1836 [At American Revolution]
[Internet Archive backup here]
- Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932): The Significance of the
Frontier in American History, 1893, excerpts, [At this Site]
- Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932): The Frontier in American History 1893, [Full Text][At Virginia]
[Internet Archive backup here]
- Annexation of The Hawaiian Islands, 1898 [At this Site]
- Elinore Pruitt Stewart: Letters of a Woman Homesteader [Was At UVA, now Internet Archive] [Full Text]
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Virginia Reed Murphy: Across the Plains in the Donner Party: A Personal Narrative of the Overland Trip to California [Was at Teleport, now Internet Archive]
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The United States as a
World Power
- WEB German-American Diplomacy, 1785-1847. [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- WEB Spanish-American Diplomacy 1795 - 1898 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- Treaty of Amity, Settlement, and Limits Between the United States of America and His Catholic Majesty,
1819 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- WEB Treaties with The Barbary Powers: 1786-1836 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816: Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
Notable for Article 11 stating that the USA is in no sense founded on the Christian religion.
- The Barbary Treaties: Treaty of Peace and Amity, with Article Additional and Explanatory, Signed at Algiers
December 22 and 23, 1816 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- US Treaty with the Two Sicilies; December 1, 1845 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- Commodore Matthew Perry: When We Landed in Japan, 1854 [At this Site]
- Townsend Harris: The President's Letter [At this Site]
Harris was the first US ambassador to Japan.
- Treaty of Commerce and Navigation Between the United States and the Ottoman Empire, February 25, 1862 [At
Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
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Early US Society
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Early US Religion
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NOTES:
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