Lynda Roth 

Origins Module

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Constitution of the United States

• "The Cauldron" 1492-1776, based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" "The Mayflower Compact"

• John Winthrop and Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"

• "On the Emigration to America," poem by Phillip Freneau

• Federalist #10

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Manifest Destiny Module

• Louisiana Purchase

• Indian Removal Act of 1830, "You Will Go"

• Chief Seattle's speech to the President

• "The Expansion," based on "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" by Frederick Jackson Turner

• "My Antonia" by Willa Cather

• "The Octopus" by Frank Norris

• "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" by Walt Whitman

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Women's Movement Module First Wave Feminism

• The Seneca Falls Declaration

• "Ain't I a Woman" speech by Sojourner Truth

• The Comstock Law

• The 19th Amendment

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Civil War/Reconstruction Module

• The Homestead Act of 1962

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The 12th, 14th, 15th Amendments

• The Black Codes

• "Uncle Tome's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe

• "A Sight in Camp" by Walt Whitman

• "Oh Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman

• "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman

• "The Red Bade of Courage" by Stephen Crane 

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