June 27, 1848 There is a very striking difference between the position on which the slaveholding and non-slaveholding States stand, in...

Wilmot Proviso

Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions - John C. Calhoun

James Madison's Opinion on the Nullification Crisis

South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification

Declaration of Sentiments of the American Antislavery Society - William Lloyd Garrison

Two Speeches by Rufus King on the Missouri Bill 1819

"Lyceum Address" - Abraham Lincoln

Whig Party Platform 1844

The Indian Removal Act (1830)

The Rights of Women - Frederick Douglass

Declaration of Sentiments

I Have Come to Tell You Something About Slavery - Frederick Douglass

Constitution of Rhode Island

Territorial Act of Minnesota

Polk's 1848 State of the Union

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Polk's 1847 State of the Union

Polk's 1846 State of the Union

Enabling Act of Wisconsin