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Primary Source Documents · 1850–1865

A Nation Divided

Secession, the Civil War, and emancipation in the words of those who lived it.

Age of ExplorersColoniesRevolutionary WarNew NationAntebellum AmericaA Nation DividedReconstructionIndustrializationWorld StageTwentiesDepressionWorld War IIPostwarSixtiesToday
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1850Report Of The Committee Of Thirteen 1850Clay's Resolution 1850Fugitive Slave Act 1850Texas & New Mexico Act 1850Utah Act 1851"Ar'n't I a Woman"-Sojourner's Truth 1853Franklin Pierce's Presidential Inaugural Address 1853Treaty With Mexico 1854Douglas' Report 1854Kansas-Nebraska Act 1857Lecompton Constitution 1857Dred Scott vs. Sanford 1857James Buchanan's Presidential Inaugural Address 1860South Carolina Ordinance Of Seccession 1861Abraham Lincoln's First Presidential Inaugural Address 1861Blockade Of Southern Ports 1861Call For 75,000 Volunteers 1861Act For A National Loan 1861Act For Calling Out The Militia 1861Confederate Constitution 1861Battle of Bull Run 1862Act Abolishes Slavery In The District Of Columbia 1862Antietam/Capture of Harper's Ferry & Operations In Maryland 1863Gettysburg Battle 1863Gettysburg Address 1863Amnesty Proclamation 1863Emancipation Proclamation 1864National Bank Act 1864Proclamation On Reconstruction 1865Lincoln Second Inaugural Address

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