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Primary Sources
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Archives of the West, 1806-1848 - Links to Primary Sources via PBS' New Perspectives on the West
Archives of the West, 1848-1856 - Links to Primary Sources via PBS' New Perspectives on the West
Archives of the West, 1868-1874 - Links to Primary Sources via PBS' New Perspectives on the West
Documents of Westward Expansion via Digital History
Migration North to Alaska - primary sources covering the Alaska Purchase Treaty, natural resources, the gold rush and homesteading linked from the National Archives
John L. O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny, 1839 John O’Sullivan’s 1839 and 1845 articles in the Democratic Review in which he wrote about an American destiny and first used the phrase “manifest destiny.”
John O’Sullivan’s 1845 article, Annexation in the Democratic Review in which he wrote about an American destiny and first used the phrase “manifest destiny.”
Resolutions, declarations and treaties with a focus on Texas independence, the acquisition of Oregon and Texas, and the Mexican-American War via PBS' New Perspectives on the West.
Photos of the Louisana Purchase as well as a textual transcript of the three agreements via National Archives and Records Administration
Louisiana Purchase Treaty; April 30, 1803 via the Avalon Project
Treaty With the Chickasaw : 1830, Unratified via the Avalon Project
Transcript of President Andrew Jackson's Message via the to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830) via OurDocuments.gov
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