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Book

The great American documents. Volume II, 1831-1900

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL 973 A823 [multiple volumes] (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Hill and Wang, 2019.

Physical Description

159 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Summary

"In the Great American Documents series, the teacher and graphic-book author Ruth Ashby and the renowned illustrator Ernie Colón tell the story of the United States through the major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays that shaped it. The Great American Documents:Volume I introduces as series narrator none other than Uncle Sam, who walks us through twenty essential documents. Each document gets a chapter, in which Uncle Sam explains its key passages, its origins, how it came to be written, and its impact. This graphic primer is an indispensable resource for students and any one else who wants the facts of American history close at hand"--

Contents

  • Manifest destiny
  • Declaration of sentiments
  • #t Compromise of 1850
  • Uncle Tom's cabin
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Dred Scott v Sandford
  • "House Divided" speech
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Gettysburg Address
  • Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
  • Thirteenth Amendment
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Fifteenth Amendment
  • Plessy v Ferguson
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Dawes Severality Act
  • White Man's Burden
  • Mother of Exiles.

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