Growing Out

Primary Sources:

Missouri Compromise

Jefferson on the Missouri Compromise

Declaration of War

Lincoln against the Mexican War

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

A collection of diaries from those on the Oregon Trail

A collection of diaries from slaves before, during, and after the Civil War

A collection of stories from slaves

A Slave's Life by Lizzie Keckley

Traveling the Erie Canal: An Eyewitness Account

Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage: An Eyewitness Account

Traveling the National Road: An Eyewitness Account

A Portrait of America (the 1830s) by Thomas Nichols

Secondary Sources:

The Cotton Gin: TeachingHistory.org: "The Disaster of Innovation" by Christopher Hammer.

State Department: Gadsden Purchase

200 Years of US Growth - GIF

Death by? MentalFloss: "Where Are They Now? Diseases that Killed You in OregonTrail" by Laura Turner Garrison.

Multimedia:

PBS: Mexican-American War Timeline

Starfall Education: "Oh California" 1:20

Schoolhouse Rock: "Elbow Room" 3:02

TMW Media: "Henry Clay and the Struggle for the Union" 3:15

Lowell Mill Girls 7:46

CrashCourseHistory: "Slavery" 14:25

CrashCourseHistory: "Market Revolution" 14:11

Discerning History: "How the Cotton Gin Changed America" 4:18

National Museum of American History: "Cotton Gin Cart Demo" 1:06

All Histories: "Mexican American War" (1/6) 9:21

HistoryCentral: "The Battle of Mexico City" 2:46

"Remember the Alamo: The Texan War for Independence" 6:19

America's Heritage: "The Erie Canal" 6:39