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Cahokia
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| Chapter: | 1
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| Date: | c. 1200
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| Author: | Lloyd K. Townsend
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| Description: | Monk's Mound
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| Type: | Painting
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Indians of New Netherlands Account for the Creation
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| Chapter: | 1
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| Date: | c. 1650s
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| Author: | Indians of New Netherlands
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| Description: | An Indian Creation Story
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| Type: | Text
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English Trade with Indians
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| Chapter: | 2
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| Date: | 1634
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| Author: | Theodor de Bry
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| Description: | A trade encounter between the Indians and the English
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| Type: | Drawing
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Indentured Servitude in the Chesapeake
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| Chapter: | 4
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| Date: | 1640
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| Author: | Virginia General Court
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| Description: | Court Judgement
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| Type: | Text
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The Wonders of the Invisible World
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| Chapter: | 4
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| Date: | 1693
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| Author: | Cotton Mather
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| Description: | Public Exhortation
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| Type: | Text
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Land Division in New Orleans
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| Chapter: | 5
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| Date: | c. 1720
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| Author: | unknown
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| Description: | The "long lot" system
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| Type: | Map
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Virginia Gentleman Weighs "a Frail Woman's" Class
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| Chapter: | 5
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| Date: | c. 1730
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| Author: | William Byrd, II
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| Description: | A response to the elopement of an upper-class woman with an overseer
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| Type: | Text
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Charleston, SC Sons of Liberty
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| Chapter: | 7
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| Date: | 1766
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| Author: | Anonymous
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| Description: | Patriot List
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| Type: | Text
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The Copley Family
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| Chapter: | 7
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| Date: | 1776-1777
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| Author: | John Singleton Copley
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| Description: | Family Portrait
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| Type: | Painting
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A Profile of Loyalist Claims
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| Chapter: | 8
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| Date: | 1780
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| Author: | Wallace Brown
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| Description: | Claimant List
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| Type: | Text
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Washington's Farewell Address
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| Chapter: | 10
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| Date: | 1796
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| Author: | George Washington
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| Description: | Our first President cautions the young nation
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| Type: | Text
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Lewis & Clark: A Scientific Interest...
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| Chapter: | 11
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| Date: | 1805
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| Author: | Meriweather Lewis
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| Description: | Journal Entry
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| Type: | Illustration/Text
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Lewis & Clark: A Modern View
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| Chapter: | 11, 44
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| Date: | 1998
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| Author: | John Klossner
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| Description: | Cartoon
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| Type: | Illustration
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Veto of the Bank of the United States
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| Chapter: | 14
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| Date: | 1832
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| Author: | Andrew Jackson
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| Description: | Speech
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| Type: | Text
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Removal of the Eastern Indians
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| Chapter: | 14
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| Date: | 1840
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| Author: |
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| Description: | Forced Migration Routes
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| Type: | Map
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Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
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| Chapter: | 15
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| Date: | 1794
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| Author: | Houghton Mifflin Company
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| Description: | Animation of the operation of a cotton gin
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| Type: | Animation
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Domestic Economy
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| Chapter: | 15, 16
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| Date: | 1841
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| Author: | Catherine E. Beecher
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| Description: | Essay
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| Type: | Text
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Rules for Husbands and Wives
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| Chapter: | 16
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| Date: | 1830
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| Author: | Mathew Carey
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| Description: | Views on the Role of Women
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| Type: | Text
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Early Evidence of Sexual Tensions Within Slavery
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| Chapter: | 17
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| Date: | 1681
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| Author: | unknown
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| Description: | A white woman testifies of sexual assualt by a mulatto man
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| Type: | Text
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Manifest Destiny
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| Chapter: | 18
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| Date: | 1845
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| Author: | John L. Sullivan
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| Description: | The origins
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| Type: | Text
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Black Potential and the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
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| Chapter: | 20
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| Date: | 1853
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| Author: | Harriet Beecher Stowe
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| Description: | Author's defense of the factual basis of her novel
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| Type: | Text
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South Carolina Defines the Causes of Secession
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| Chapter: | 20
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| Date: | 1860
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| Author: | unknown
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| Description: | South Carolina's reasons for Secession
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| Type: | Text
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Confederate Dead at Gettysburg
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| Chapter: | 22
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| Date: | 1863
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| Author: | Alexander Gardner et al.
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| Description: | Battle Aftermath
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| Type: | Photograph
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Assesses the Black Soldier
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| Chapter: | 22
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| Date: | 1870
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| Author: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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| Description: | Account of a black Civil War regiment by their commander
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| Type: | Text
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Louisiana Black Code
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| Chapter: | 23
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| Date: | 1865
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| Author: | Louisiana
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| Description: | Reconstruction-era "black codes" restrict blacks' rights in the South
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| Type: | Text
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Southern Skepticism of the Freedmen's Bureau
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| Chapter: | 23
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| Date: | 1866
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| Author: | James D. B. De Bow
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| Description: | A leading Southern writer's comments
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| Type: | Text
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Political Symbols
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| Chapter: | 24
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| Date: | 1874
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| Author: | Thomas Nast
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| Description: | Political Cartoon
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| Type: | Illustration
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Chinese in San Francisco
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| Chapter: | 24
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| Date: | 1885
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| Author: | San Francisco Board of Supervisors
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| Description: | Living conditions in Chinatown
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| Type: | Text
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Strike of 1877
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| Chapter: | 25
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| Date: | 1877
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| Author: | Allan Pinkerton
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| Description: | "Pinkerton-men" as strikebreakers
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| Type: | Text
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American Woman's Home
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| Chapter: | 26
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| Date: | 1869
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| Author: | Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
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| Description: | Patternbook Perspective Drawing & Floor-plan
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| Type: | Illustration
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Montana v. Rehberg
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| Chapter: | 26, 27
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| Date: | 1885
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| Author: | Anonymous
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| Description: | Court Transcript
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| Type: | Text
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Consumerism
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| Chapter: | 26, 34
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| Date: | 1890-1926
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| Author: |
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| Description: | Personal & Business Income
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| Type: | Table
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How the Other Half Lives
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| Chapter: | 26
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| Date: | 1890
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| Author: | Jacob Riis
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| Description: | Life of the poor in the city
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| Type: | Text
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Booker T. Washington and Others
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| Chapter: | 26
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| Date: | 1903
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| Author: | W. E. B. Du Bois
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| Description: | Criticism of Washington's views
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| Type: | Text
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Whitman Salutes the Indo-Hispanic Conrtibution to America
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| Chapter: | 27
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| Date: | 1883
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| Author: | Walt Whitman
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| Description: | Indian & Hispanic role in the growth of the U.S.
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| Type: | Text
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The Significance of the Frontier in American History
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| Chapter: | 27
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| Date: | 1893
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| Author: | Frederick Jackson Turner
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| Description: | Importance of the frontier in shaping American character
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| Type: | Text
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Populist Party Platform
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| Chapter: | 28
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| Date: | 1892
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| Author: | Populist Party
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| Description: | New political party calls for radical changes
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| Type: | Text
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Mahan Defines Security in Terms of Sea Power
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| Chapter: | 29, 30
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| Date: | 1897
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| Author: | Alfred Thayer Mahan
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| Description: | Military/Geo-Political Theory
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| Type: | Text
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Attack on the Meatpackers
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| Chapter: | 31
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| Date: | 1906
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| Author: | Upton Sinclair
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| Description: | "Muckraker's" indictment
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| Type: | Text
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American Neutrality Policy
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