The American Vision: Modern Times © 2010 Indiana Edition

Unit 1: Creating a Nation

Historical Thinking Activities

PDF Sources:

Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Ruling and Reactions (24.0K)

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (14.0K)

The Republican Party Platform of 1860 (16.0K)

The Democratic Party Platform of 1860 (11.0K)

South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession (22.0K)

Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (18.0K)

Internet Sources for Images about Slavery and the Slavery Debate:

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php

Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom from the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/082_slave.html

Digital Schomburg Images—Slavery
Images of 19th Century African Americans
http://digital.nypl.org/cgi-shl/vsc30b.exe/schomburg/images_aa19/toc.html?E+nyplbeta

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