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Includes index A collection of thirty-nine contemporary documents tracing the history of the United States, including such areas as human rights, the environment, and immigration. Includes commentary, photographs, and engravings Mayflower compact -- Poor Richard's almanack / Benjamin Franklin -- Speech to the second Virginia convention / Patrick Henry -- Common sense / Thomas Paine -- Letter to John Adams / Abigail Adams -- Declaration of independence -- Constitution and the bill of rights -- Farewell address / George Washington -- Star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key -- Monroe doctrine / James Monroe -- Declaration of sentiments, Seneca Falls convention -- Uncle Tom's cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Emancipation proclamation / Abraham Lincoln -- Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln -- Fourteenth amendment -- Fifteenth amendment -- I will fight no more forever / Chief Joseph -- Statement on the causes of Wounded Knee / Red Cloud -- Twenty years at Hull-House / Jane Addams -- Sixteenth amendment -- Fourteen points / Woodrow Wilson -- Nineteenth amendment -- War message to Congress / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Brown v. Board of education of Topeka -- Inaugural address / John F
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- Author
- Miller, Marilyn, 1946-
- Publisher
- New York: Scholastic
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780590298810
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Education, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (16 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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