Thank the Erie Canal for Spreading People, Ideas and Germs Across America | History | Smithsonian Magazine
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1832: Andrew Jackson to Lewis Cass, December 17, 1832 - prepare for war!
This letter from Jackson to Lewis Cass is clear, he wants to "crush the monster in its cradle" and that monster is South Carolina's threats of secession over the Tariff. This has a copy of the letter and a copy in his handwriting
The Avalon Project : President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification, December 10, 1832
the strange position that any one State may not only declare an act of Congress void, but prohibit its execution- that they may do this consistently with the Constitution-that the true construction of that instrument permits a State to retain its place in the Union, and yet be bound by no other of its laws than those it may choose to consider as constitutional.
The next objection is, that the laws in question operate unequally. This objection may be made with truth to every law that has been or can be passed. The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Telling the Whole Story: Irish Americans in Five Points · SHEC: Resources for Teachers
This lesson has students studying one page of the 1855 New York state census to investigate immigrant families in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan. Good for a one-class lesson exercise
American Panorama - Canals
Hoping to produce a map that conveys more of the "vitality" of canals as engines of trade, economic development, and travel in antebellum America, this map not only shows the spaces that canals connected but information about the goods they carried.
Introduction - Missouri Compromise: Primary Documents in American History - Research Guides at Library of Congress
This one sentence from the Library of Congress explains the Missouri Compromise as something that "was passed" in compromise. The complete story of the legislation and parliamentary manuevers that became known as the Missouri Compromise was nothing like that - it was not, as such, a compromise - but it is described that way. Why not have students, or their teachers test this one sentence - is it fair?
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Furthermore, with the exception of Missouri, this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line.
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Election of 1828 | Dirtiest Presidential Campaign Ever
Title says it all - this is the sort of reading that would capture student's interest as a primer to a fact checking enterprise - are the statements in this article true?
Thomas Jefferson to Edward Coles, 25 August 1814 - Letter about Emancipation
Jefferson's thoughts on emancipation in a private letter to Edward Coles. Edward Coles was a private secretary to James Madison, the second governor of Illinois, and an abolitionist.
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younger generation, recieving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast, and had become as it were the vital spirit of every American, that the generous
temperament of youth, analogous to the motion of their blood, and above the suggestions of avarice, would have sympathised with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond
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Can You Spot James Monroe in These 3 Famous Paintings?
Interesting look at where presidents can show up in paintings
The Domestic Slave Trade - Edward Baptist, Cornel
This 8.5 minute video features Edward Baptist explaining the Domestic Slave Trade. Although students might have trouble keeping their attention through it, teachers would be well-served by learning the content Baptist presents in order to present it to students in their own voice
Contagion in New York City: 1832 | Pulitzer Center
From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 24 January …
John Q Adams writes to his granddaughter with great advice and his admission that the more he learns the less he seems to know
Evergreen Plantation - Historic Site
One of the few surviving thoroughly intact plantations (slave labor camps) in the United States, the Evergreen Plantation still has cabins used to house enslaved African-Americans. The pictures, articles lesson and slavery database are all helpful to teaching the complete story of a sugarcane plantation in Louisiana
Slavery in New York
From the New York Historical Society
The Cotton Trade - Brown Brothers Harriman
This is the bank's acknowledgement of it's role in 19th century slavery
Slave Streets, Free Streets:Visualizing the Landscape of Early Baltimore
The potential of digital history to allow teachers and students to "see" the past based on research is realized with this view of Baltimore.
Brooklyn Museum: Catherine Greene - nope she didn't
How many teachers think they are correcting the taught narrative canon by telling their students that Eli Whitney did not really invent the cotton gin? It might feel better to explain that it was actually invented by a woman who never got the credit - but what does the evidence say. The Brooklyn Museum says that she did not
Student Notebooks | Slavery & the UVA School of Law
Notebooks from students at the University of Virginia Law School reveal how property laws related to slavery were taught and learned before the Civil War
These lectures center on the rights of property-holding white men and their relationship to slavery and the state. Thus, Law School teachings provided the legal justifications for slavery—one important tool in solidifying a slave society—to students whose whole University experience nonetheless supported white supremacy and slavery.
A son of the forest : Apess, William, 1798-1839 :
One of the first autobiographies published by a Native American and was published partly in reaction to advocates of Indian Removal, including President Andrew Jackson