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U.S. History

U.S. History

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Famous Speeches: Daisy Bates' "What Price Freedom?"
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Famous Speeches: Harvey Milk, "The Hope Speech"
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Famous Speeches: Kamala Harris’ vice president-elect acceptance speech
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Famous Speeches: President-elect Joe Biden’s victory speech
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Primary Sources - Famous Speeches: Frederick Douglass, "Men of Color, To Arms!"
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Primary Sources - Famous Speeches: Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"
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Primary Sources - Famous Speeches: Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"
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Primary Sources - Famous Speeches: Susan B. Anthony's "Women's Rights to the Suffrage"
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Primary Sources - Famous Speeches: Zitkala-Ĺ a speaks to Indigenous activists
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Primary Sources- Famous Speeches: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
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Primary Sources- Famous Speeches: Cesar Chavez's Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Primary Sources- Famous Speeches: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Address
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Primary Sources- Famous Speeches: Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"
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Primary Sources- Famous Speeches: Gloria Steinem's Testimony on Equal Rights Amendment
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Primary Sources- Famous Speeches: John F. Kennedy's "We Choose to go to the Moon"
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Primary Sources- Famous Speeches: Joseph McCarthy's “Enemies from Within”
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Primary Sources- Famous Speeches: Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?"
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Primary Sources- Time Machine (1770): The Boston Massacre
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Primary Sources- Time Machine (1773): The Boston Tea Party
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Primary Sources- Time Machine (1838): The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears
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Primary Sources- Time Machine (1845): Manifest Destiny and annexing California and Texas
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Primary Sources- Time Machine (1845): The Oregon Trail
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Primary Sources- Time Machine (1892): The first immigrants arrive at Ellis Island
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Primary Sources- Time Machine (1902): Children working in the Pennsylvania coal mines
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Primary Sources-Time Machine (1865): The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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Primary Sources: "An act repealing the Stamp Act," March 18, 1766
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Primary Sources: "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau
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Primary Sources: A Soldier's Account of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
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Primary Sources: Alexander Hamilton Finds Deficiencies in the Constitution, 1780
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Primary Sources: Andrew Jackson's Letter to the Cherokee
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Primary Sources: Andrew Jackson's Message "On Indian Removal"
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Primary Sources: Brown v. Board of Education
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Primary Sources: Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1765)
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Primary Sources: Excerpt from "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"
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Primary Sources: George Washington criticizes the Articles of Confederation, 1785
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Primary Sources: George Washington's Farewell Address
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Primary Sources: Gertrude Weil’s letters on women’s suffrage
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Primary Sources: Harold Ickes' Letter to Roosevelt on Japanese Internment
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Primary Sources: Interview on the Dust Bowl Storms of Oklahoma in 1934
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Primary Sources: Interview with former child laborer in the Industrial Revolution
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Primary Sources: James Madison's Federalist Papers No. 10
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Primary Sources: James Madison's Federalist Papers No. 51
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Primary Sources: Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to NAACP leader Walter White
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Primary Sources: Letter to Congress from Cherokee Chief John Ross
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Primary Sources: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
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Primary Sources: Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court Decision
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Primary Sources: Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
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Primary Sources: Mayflower Compact
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Primary Sources: Olaudah Equiano describes the Middle Passage, 1780s
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Primary Sources: Plessy v. Ferguson
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Primary Sources: President Harry S. Truman’s address before the NAACP, 1947
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Primary Sources: Queen Liliuokalani's Letter of Protest to McKinley
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Primary Sources: Sharecropping system kept freed slaves, poor whites living in poverty
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Primary Sources: The Anti-Federalist Papers, Brutus 1
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Primary Sources: The Articles of Confederation
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Primary Sources: The Articles of Confederation
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Primary Sources: The Bill of Rights
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Primary Sources: The Constitution of the United States of America
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Primary Sources: The Declaration of Independence
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Primary Sources: The Homestead Act of 1862
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Primary Sources: The Monroe Doctrine
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Primary Sources: Woodrow Wilson's 14 Principles to End WWI
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