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Student Site
Chapter 11: The Free North and West,
1840-1860
Links
African-American Mosaic: Abolition,
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html
"A visual introduction to the early American
abolitionist movement. Maintained by the Library of Congress and based on
their own collection of images and documents, the site contains images of
antislavery pamphlets, advertisements, and sheet music with explanatory
text."*
Amistad, 1839-42,
http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/home.htm
"A guide to the Amistad Revolt of 1839 to 1842, a
shipboard revolt off the coast of Cuba that led to an intense legal
battle in the United States about slavery and the slave trade. Presented
by Mystic Seaport, the site includes a timeline, other secondary sources,
and a library of more than 500 primary-source documents."*
Famous American Trials'
"Amistad Trials 1839 - 1840"
The
site is located at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School. It
is maintained by Doug Linder, Professor of Law. The site provides a
detailed examination of the Amistad court case. It is easy to navigate
and is well written.
Mountain Men and the Fur Trade,
http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm.html
"A multimedia look at the mountain men of the Rocky
Mountain West and their role in the fur trade. The site was created by
American Mountain Men, an organization dedicated to the preservation of
the mountaineering way of life, and covers the years 1800 to 1850. It
includes a large collection of primary documents, pictures, and artifacts
from the period as well as a number of secondary sources."*
"Pioneering the American Midwest,
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umhome.html
"Documents from the Library of Congress's collection
on the Midwest, 1820-1910. Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin are the
focus of the electronic library. Texts, including journals, biographies,
letters, literature, and local histories, are searchable by subject,
author, and title. The site also features links to other Web sites in the
Library of Congress's 'American Memory' series and a list of related Web
sites."*
"The End of the Oregon Trail,
http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/index.html
"A brief history of the Oregon Trail. Created by The
End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, the site provides an
extended narrative organized into three major sections: The Pioneers,
1800-1840; The Overlanders, 1841-1866; and Settling the Oregon Country.
The site also includes a section on Black Pioneers in the Pacific
Northwest, a map library, and diaries of travelers."*
"The Gold Rush in San Francisco,
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/index0.1.html#gold
"A collection of documents, images, and articles
related to the California Gold Rush. Collated by the Museum of the City
of San Francisco, materials consist of both primary and secondary
sources, including 1848 reports from the California Star, an image of
Chinese miners in the gold fields, and an article on African American
rights during the Gold Rush."*
"The U.S.-Mexican War,
http://www.pbs.org/usmexicanwar
"Online companion site for the PBS documentary, The
U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848). The examination of the US-Mexican War is
conducted through a series of conversations with historians. For each
topic related to the war, the documentary presents a series of viewpoints
from leading historians, guided by questions from the PBS documentary
team. These dialogues are supplemented by discussion areas, through which
Web site viewers can add their comments to the historical debate. Several
timelines chart the events leading up to, during and after the war."*
Utopias in America,
http://www.cr.nps.gov/NR/travel/amana/utopia.htm
A governmental site that provides a brief introduction to the various
utopian communities. Well written and informative. Provides information
on the Oneida Community, the Rappites, Brook Farm, the Shakers and some
of the philosophical underpinnings of utopian communities.
* sv. "Links",
http://bedfordstmartins.com/tap/
Primary Documents
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
Kansas - Nebraska Act, 1856
Henry David
Thoreau: On Civil Disobedience
Ralph
Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance (1841)
Ralph
Waldo Emerson: The Transcendentalist, 1842
FOR ADDITIONAL
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Maps and Photos
Abolitionist Meeting (jpg, 77.9)
Home
Industries Political Emblem (jpg, 38.4K)
Conestoga
Wagon (jpg, 106K)
Gourd Fiddle
(jpg, 22K)
Proslavery Woodcuts (jpg, 132K)
Fugitive
Slave Cartoon (jpg, 75.3K)
John
Deere (jpg, 11.8K)
Steel plow ("singing plow")
(jpg, 26.8K)
Cyrus McCormick
(jpg, 22.5K)
Samuel F. B. Morse
(jpg, 79.6K)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(jpg, 5.7K)
Henry David Thoreau
(jpg, 11.1K)
Margaret Fuller
(jpg, 62.3K)
Brook Farm
(jpg, 12.8K)
Charles Fourier
(jpg, 65.7K)
John
Humphrey Noyes (jpg, 23.5K)
Oneida Community
(jpg, 14.2K)
Mary Cragin
(jpg, 48.2K)
Lydia Maria Child
(jpg, 14.6K)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(jpg, 11K)
Lucretia Mott
(jpg,21.6K)
Frederick Douglass
(jpg, 8.3K)
Henry Bibb
(jpg, 13.2K)
Sojourner Truth
(jpg, 31.8K)
Henry Highland Garnet
(jpg, 14.8K)
William Wells Brown
(jpg, 29.2K)
Martin R. Delaney
(jpg, 48.8K)
Albert Bierstadt
(jpg, 9.1K)
Senator Thomas Hart Benton
(jpg, 13.2K)
Joseph Smith, Jr.
(jpg, 49.6K)
Brigham Young, Jr.
(jpg, 27.1K)
Santa Anna
(jpg, 63.4K)
Stephen F. Austin
(jpg, 14.3K)
The
Alamo (jpg, 22.6K)
President William Henry Harrison
(jpg, 72.6K)
President John Tyler
(jpg, 55.6K)
John
Slidell (jpg, 86K)
General Zachery Taylor
(jpg, 107K)
Colonel Stephen Watts Kearny
(jpg, 86.4K)
General Winfield Scott
(jpg, 251K)
Large Battle Maps
Note: These maps are large in size and
memory allocation. Most are over 200k and will require several minutes to
download with a modem.
Summary of Operations, 1846-1847 (PD Map)
Scott's Campaign, 9 March- 14 September 1847
(PD Map)
Scott's Campaign, 12 August- 15 September 1847 (PD Map)
Taylor's
Campaign, 1846- 1847 (PD Map)
Copied from West Point's History Department's on-line map library @
http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/MapsHome.htm
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