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Growth and Conflict

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Section 11.02

II. Connecting Cities and Goods in a Growing Nation

  1. Leonard P. Curry, The Corporate City: The American City as a Political Entity, 1800–1850 (Greenwood, 1997), 46.[]

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  2. Cathy Matson and Wendy A. Woloson, Risky Business: Winning and ­Losing in the Early American Economy, 1780–1850 (Library Company of Philadelphia, 2003), 29.[]

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  3. Louisiana Courier , February 12, 1840.[]

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Section 11.03

III. Industry and Society

  1. Barbara Welter, “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820–1860,” American Quarterly 18, no. 2 (1966): 151–74, https://​doi​.org/​10​.2307/​2711179.[]

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  2. “Lowell Mill Women Create the First Union of Working Women,” AFL-CIO, https://​aflcio​.org/​about/​history/​labor​-history​-events/​lowell​-mill​-women​-form​-union.[]

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Section 11.04

IV. New Faiths

  1. Philip F. Gura, American Transcendentalism: A History (Hill and Wang, 2008), 5.[]

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  2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar,” speech, 1837, https://​archive​.vcu​.edu/​english/​engweb/​transcendentalism/​authors/​emerson/​essays/​amscholar​.html; Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance,” in Essays, First Series, 1841, https://​archive​.vcu​.edu/​english/​engweb/​transcendentalism/​authors/​emerson/​essays/​selfreliance​.html.[]

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  3. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, http://​www​.gutenberg​.org/​files/​205/​205​-h/​205​-h​.htm.[]

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  4. Sterling F. Delano, Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia (Harvard University Press, 2009).[]

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Section 11.05

V. Fighting Sin

  1. [Sarah Bagley], “The Blindness of the Age,” Voice of Industry , April 23, 1847, https://​www​.industrialrevolution​.org/​the​-blindness​-of​-the​-age​#topof blindnessofage.[]

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  2. Legislative Documents, 1842, House, no. 4, 3, in Elizabeth Lewis Otey, The Beginnings of Child Labor Legislation in Certain States: A Comparative Study (Arno Press, 1974, 78).[]

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  3. Miriam E. Loughran, “The Historical Development of Child-Labor Legislation in the United States,” PhD diss., Catholic University of America, 1921, 67.[]

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  4. Reinhard O. Johnson, The Liberty Party, 1840–1848: Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States (Louisiana State University Press, 2009).[]

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  5. Philip Gould, “The Rise, Development, and Circulation of the Slave ­Narrative,” in The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative , ed. Audrey Fisch (Cambridge University Press, 2007), 24.[]

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  6. “Frederick Douglass,” National Park Service, https://​www​.nps​.gov/​wori/​learn/​historyculture/​frederick​-douglass​.htm.[]

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  7. Gerda Lerner, The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).[]

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  8. “Declaration of Sentiments,” in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, History of Woman Suffrage , vol. 1 (Rochester, NY, 1889), 70–71, https://​sourcebooks​.fordham​.edu/​mod/​senecafalls​.asp.[]

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Section 11.06

VI. Western Expansion

  1. Jane McManus Storm, “Annexation,” United States Magazine and Democratic Review 17, no. 85 (July–August 1845), 5, https://​books​.google​.com/​books​?id​=​JvE7AQAAMAAJ.[]

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  2. Yonatan Eyal, The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828–1861 (Cambridge University Press, 2007).[]

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  3. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Young American: A Lecture Read Before the Mercantile Library Association, Boston, February 7, 1844,” https://​emersoncentral​.com/​texts/​nature​-addresses​-lectures/​lectures/​the​-young​-american/.[]

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  4. See Peter S. Onuf, “Imperialism and Nationalism in the Early American Republic,” in Empire’s Twin: U.S. Anti-imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism , ed. Ian Tyrell and Jay Sexton (Cornell University Press, 2015), 21–40.[]

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  5. Abraham Lincoln, “Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions,” 1858, http://​www​.abrahamlincolnonline​.org/​lincoln/​speeches/​discoveries​.htm.[]

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  6. Horace Greeley, New York Tribune , 1841. Although the phrase “Go west, young man,” is often attributed to Greeley, the exhortation was most likely only popularized by the newspaper editor in numerous speeches, letters, and editorials and always in the larger context of the comparable and superior health, wealth, and advantages to be had in the West.[]

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  7. Adrienne Caughfield, True Women and Westward Expansion (Texas A&M University Press, 2005).[]

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  8. Johnny Faragher and Christine Stansell, “Women and Their Families on the Overland Trail to California and Oregon, 1842–1867,” Feminist Studies 2, no. 2/3 (1975): 150–66, https://​doi​.org/​10​.2307/​3177779.[]

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  9. Deborah M. Liles and Cecilia Gutierrez Venable, Texas Women and Ranching: On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities (Texas A&M University Press, 2019).[]

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  10. For more on the technology and transportation revolutions, see Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 (Oxford University Press, 2007).[]

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Section 11.07

VI. Indigenous People and Settler Pressures in the West

  1. Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press, 2008); Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (Yale University Press, 2009).[]

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  2. The Great Basin is bound to the west by the Sierra Mountains in California and the Cascades in Oregon, to the east by the Rocky Mountains, to the north by the Snake River Basin, and to the south by the Mojave Desert. It includes most of Nevada, the western half of Utah, and parts of Oregon, California, Wyoming, and Idaho.[]

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  3. Ned Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West(Harvard University Press, 2006).[]

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Section 11.08

VIII. Westward Expansion and the Politics of Slavery

  1. Joseph Nathan Kane, Presidential Fact Book (Random House, 1998), 61.[]

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  2. Richard Peters, Report of the Case of Edward Prigg against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1842).[]

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  3. See Sojourner Truth, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth , ed. Olive Gilbert (Boston, 1850), http://​digital​.library​.upenn​.edu/​women/​truth/​1850/​1850​.html; Marilyn Richardson, ed., Maria W. Stewart: America’s First Black Woman Political Writer (Indiana University Press, 1987); John Stauffer, ed., The Works of James McCune Smith: Black Intellectual and Abolitionist (Oxford University Press, 2007); Frank A. Rollin, Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delaney (Boston, 1868), especially 313–67, https://​archive​.org/​details/​lifepublicservic00inroll.[]

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  4. James K. Polk: “Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1845. Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://​www​.presidency​.ucsb​.edu/​documents/​inaugural​-address​-30.[]

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  5. Quoted in The Annual Register, or, a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1846 , Volume 88 (Washington, DC, 1847), 377.[]

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Section 11.09

VII. The US-Mexican War

  1. Amy S. Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2005).[]

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  2. James M. McCaffrey, Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War, 1846–1848 (New York University Press, 1992), 53.[]

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  3. Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1970).[]

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  4. Eleanor Flexnor, Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States (Harvard University Press, 1975).[]

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  5. Report of the Woman’s Rights Convention, Held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19th and 20th, 1848 (Rochester, NY, 1848).[]

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  6. Joseph Rayback, Free Soil: The Election of 1848 (University Press of Kentucky, 2014).[]

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Section 11.10

X. Conclusion

  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford University Press, 1988), 51.[]

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