Developing Nation & Texas: 1820-1847: Volume 6 (Original Source Series)

The United States had just proved skilled at defending itself from a world class and capable aggressor, Great Britain. The rest of the world was taking note. The “American Dream” of freedom and owning land, caused a tidal wave of dreamers with skills sweeping onto American shores. The Republic of Texas would be born with a battle cry, “Remember the Alamo!” Western settlements would reach into Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Michigan, and increase up and down the mighty Mississippi. More land was needed for the challenges of growth as new states were being conceived to join the American Republic. The questions over whether slavery would be allowed in new territories and states only stoked an already heated debate, which was politically tearing the young nation apart. Political and military legends would be born from this era. President Andrew Jackson, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Jim Bowie, are among those names highly recognized. Included Works: (84 Accounts) • Who Reads an American Book by Smith • Missouri Compromise by Blaine • An Apprehensive View of the Missouri Compromise by Jefferson • Northern View of the Missouri Compromise by Adams • Moderate View of the Missouri Compromise by Niles • How a Log Cabin was Built by Unknown • First Seminole War by Parton • Monroe Doctrine by Monroe • Lafayette Revisits America by Weed • Lafayette's Triumphal Tour in 1824 by Benton • Spoils System at Work by Colonel McKenney • Jefferson's Estimate of Patrick Henry by Webster • Pushmataha to John C. Calhoun by Pushmataha • Erie Canal Celebration and Other Canals by Schouler • Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration by Goodrich • Panama Mission by Schouler • Issue in the Revolution by Everett • Webster's First Bunker Hill Monument Oration by Webster • Duel Between Clay and John Randolph of Roanoke by Benton • Death of Adams and Jefferson on the Same Day • Jackson's First Election as President • Nullification and its Overthrow • Turbulent Presidential Election of 1828 • First American Locomotive • Jackson-Calhoun Break • Pioneering Against Slavery • Northwest Ordinance • Foote Resolution • Webster's Reply to Hayne • Rupture Between Jackson and Calhoun • Webster-Hayne Debate • How the Federal Union Worked to the Injury of the South • Garrison and His Liberator • Three Northern Views of the Abolitionists • Calhoun's Views of Slavery, His Character, and His Personality • Black Hawk War by Thwaites • Overthrow of the United States Bank • Discovery of the Source of the Mississippi as in Lake Itasca • Beyond the Mississippi Eighty Years Ago • An Argument Upholding Slavery • Improving Transportation • Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States • Black Hawk War by Black Hawk • Why the United States Bank Was Closed • Slave-Breaking in the South • First Anti-Slavery Convention • A State's Right to Leave the Union • Chicago as a Growing Village • Jacksons' Farewell Address • Principles of Executive Government • Clays' Attack on Jackson by Clay • Transmitting Anti-Slavery Mail • Last Seminole War • Death of Lafayette • Mobbing of Garrison in the Streets of Boston • How Texas Became Independent • Houston's Seizure of Texas • Battle of San Jacinto • The Fall of the Alamo • Crushing of the Creeks • Battle of San Jacinto • Panic of 1837 • Annexation of Texas • Why the Annexation of Texas was Opposed • Abolition Incites the Murder of Lovejoy • Effects of the Panic of 1837 • Murder of Lovejoy • Expunging Resolution • American Scholar by Emerson • Expunging Resolution • "Log-Cabin and Hard Cider" Campaign • Webster-Ashburton Treaty Forecasts the Fate of Texas • Dickens Visits America • Treaty with Great Britain, 1842 • Dorr's Rebellion in Rhode Island • Emigration Into Oregon • Invention of the Telegraph • Morse's First Telegraph Line • Howe's Invention of the Sewing Machine • War with Mexico Declared • How Texas Was Annexed • Mormon Exodus to Utah • Mormon Migration to Utah • Dr. Morton's Introduction of Anesthetic Ether