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HISTORY 101 Contra Costa College Manifest Destiny Questions

 

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Use the textbook Voices of Freedom and answer the questions at the end of ONE of the following documents:

John L. O’Sullivan, Manifest Destiny (1845)

A Protest Against Anti-Chinese Prejudice (1852)

Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, The Dred Scott Decision (1857)

Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849)

William Henry Seward, “The Irrepressible Conflict” (1858)

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)

South Carolina Ordinance of Secession (1860)

Frederick Douglass on Black Soldiers (1863)

Mary Livermore on Women and the War (1883)