Reconstruction and Westward Expansion (1865-1914)

Associate Justice David Davis: Ex parte Milligan

1866

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Frederick Douglas: Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage

January 1867

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Treaty of Fort Laramie

1868

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Ulysses S. Grant First Inaugural Address

March 4, 1869

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Horace White: The Great Chicago Fire

October 14, 1871

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Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park

1872

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Susan B. Anthony: Woman’s Rights to the Suffrage

1873

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Ulysses S. Grant Second Inaugural Address

March 4, 1873

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Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest on Race

July 6, 1875

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Freedmen’s Memorial

April 14, 1876

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Surrender Speech to the U.S. Army at Bears Paw Battle

October 5, 1877

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Ulysses S. Grant: Reasons for Being a Republican

September 28, 1880

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Chinese Exclusion Act

1882

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Pendleton Act

1883

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Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus

1883

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David Crockett: Not Yours to Give

1884

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Memorial Day Address

May 30, 1884

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Dawes Act

1887

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Interstate Commerce Act

1887

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1890

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Booker T. Washington: Address to the Atlanta Exposition

September 18, 1895

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Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

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The People’s [Populist] Party Platform

1896

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William Jennings Bryan: Cross of Gold

July 9, 1896

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De Lôme Letter

1897

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Joint Resolution on the Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands

1898

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Theodore Roosevelt: The Strenuous Life

April 10, 1899

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William Jennings Bryan: Against Imperialism

August 8, 1900

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Platt Amendment

1903

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Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

December 6, 1904

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Theodore Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address

March 4, 1905

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Theodore Roosevelt: On American Motherhood

March 13, 1905

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The San Francisco Earthquake

April 19, 1906

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W.E.B. Du Bois: Speech at Harpers Ferry: The Niagara Movement

August 16, 1906

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Muller v. Oregon

1908

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Lynching: A National Crime

April 1909

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Theodore Roosevelt: The New Nationalism

1910

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