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The great American documents. Volume II, 1831-1900

Ashby, Ruth (author.). Colón, Ernie, (illustrator.). Motter, Russell, (editor.).

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780809094592
ISBN: 0809094592
ISBN: 9780374537371
ISBN: 0374537372
Physical Description: print
159 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (page 157).

Formatted Contents Note:

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.