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The Declaration of Independence / Continental Congress, 1776 --Rough draft of the Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson, 1776 -- Letters to Abigail / John Adams, 1776 -- A short review of the Declaration / Jeremy Bentham, 1826 -- The American mind / Thomas Jefferson, 1825 -- Popular sovereignty / James Wilson, 1787 -- Keeping the revolution / Daniel Webster, 1802 -- The American and French revolutions / Lemuel Shaw, 1815 -- American principles / John Quincy Adams, 1821 -- Fifty years later / Thomas Jefferson / 1826 -- The lives and characters of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams / William Wirt, 1826 -- Petition for freedom / "A great number of blackes," 1777 -- The constitution and slavery / Luther Martin, 1787 -- Republican consistency! / William Lloyd Garrison, 1838 -- Amistad argument / John Quincy Adams, 1841 -- Tthe cause of the present crisis / John C. Calhoun, 1848 -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass, 1852 -- Party platform / Republican National Convention, 1856 -- The Dred Scott Decision / Chief Justice Roger Taney, 1857 -- Debate on the Dred Scott Decision / Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, 1858 -- The chief cornerstone / Alexander Stephens, 1861 -- Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln, 1863 -- Reconstructing America / United States Congress, 1864-1870 -- Seneca Falls Declaration / Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, 1848 -- Declaration of the Rights of Women / National Woman Suffrage Association, 1876 -- The inevitability of women's suffrage / Carrie Chapmen Catt, 1917 -- What is progress? / Woodrow Wilson, 1913 -- Speech on the Fourth of July / Calvin Coolidge, 1926 -- Commonwealth Club Address / Franklin Roosevelt, 1932 -- Speech at the Bicentennial of the Constitution / Thurgood Marshall, 1987 -- The sanctity of human life / Ronald Reagan, 1984 -- America's work in the world / George W. Bush, 2003 -- A more perfect union / Barack Obama, 2008. |
