Developing Nation & Texas: 1820 - 1847

by Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Daniel Webster

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*This Collection includes 84 First-hand Accounts:
• Who Reads an American Book –Smith
• The Missouri Compromise –Blaine
• An Apprehensive View of the Missouri Compromise –Jefferson
• A Northern View of the Missouri Compromise –Adams
• A Moderate View of the Missouri Compromise –Niles
• How a Log Cabin was Built
• The First Seminole War –Parton
• The Monroe Doctrine –Monroe
• Lafayette Revisits America –Weed
• Lafayette's Triumphal Tour in 1824 –Benton
• The Spoils System at Work –McKenney
• Jefferson's Estimate of Patrick Henry –Webster
• Pushmataha to John C. Calhoun – Pushmataha
• The Erie Canal Celebration and Other Canals –Schouler
• Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration –Goodrich
• The Panama Mission –Schouler
• The Issue in the Revolution – Everett
• Webster's First Bunker Hill Monument Oration
• The Duel Between Clay and John Randolph of Roanoke
• Death of Adams and Jefferson on the Same Day –Benton
• Jackson's First Election as President –Parton
• Nullification and its Overthrow –Roosevelt
• The Turbulent Presidential Election of 1828 –Benton
• The First American Locomotive –Latrobe
• The Jackson-Calhoun Break
• Pioneering Against Slavery –Garrison
• The Northwest Ordinance –Dane
• The Foote Resolution – Hayne
• Webster's Reply to Hayne
• The Rupture Between Jackson and Calhoun –Benton
• The Webster-Hayne Debate –Schouler
• How the Federal Union Worked to the Injury of the South –Benton
• Garrison and His Liberator –Smith
• Three Northern Views of the Abolitionists –Blaine
• Calhoun's Views of Slavery, His Character, and His Personality
• The Black Hawk War –Thwaites
• The Overthrow of the United States Bank –Roosevelt
• The Discovery of the Source of the Mississippi as in Lake Itasca
• Beyond the Mississippi Eighty Years Ago –Irving
• An Argument Upholding Slavery –Dew
• Improving Transportation –Kemble
• Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States –Hamilton
• The Black Hawk War –Hawk
• Why the United States Bank Was Closed –Jackson
• Slave-Breaking in the South –Douglass
• The First Anti-Slavery Convention –Whittier
• A State's Right to Leave the Union –Calhoun
• Chicago as a Growing Village –Shirreff
• Jacksons' Farewell Address –Jackson
• Principles of Executive Government –Jackson
• Clays' Attack on Jackson –Clay
• Transmitting Anti-Slavery Mail –Kendall
• The Last Seminole War –Benton
• The Death of Lafayette –Prentiss
• The Mobbing of Garrison in the Streets of Boston –Garrison<

396 pages, Paperback

First published September 16, 2011

About the author

Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Following the American Revolutionary War and prior to becoming president in 1801, Jefferson was the nation's first U.S. secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation's second vice president under John Adams. Jefferson was a leading proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, and produced formative documents and decisions at the state, national, and international levels. His writings and advocacy for human rights, including freedom of thought, speech, and religion, served as substantial inspirations to the American Revolution and subsequent Revolutionary War in which the Thirteen Colonies succeeded in breaking from British America and establishing the United States as a sovereign nation.
During the American Revolution, Jefferson represented Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and served as the second governor of Virginia from 1779 to 1781. In 1785, Congress appointed Jefferson U.S. minister to France, where he served from 1785 to 1789. President Washington then appointed Jefferson the nation's first secretary of state, where he served from 1790 to 1793. During this time, in the early 1790s, Jefferson and James Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party to oppose the Federalist Party during the formation of the nation's First Party System. Jefferson and Federalist John Adams became both friends and political rivals. In the 1796 U.S. presidential election between the two, Jefferson came in second, which made him Adams' vice president under the electoral laws of the time. Four years later, in the 1800 presidential election, Jefferson again challenged Adams, and won the presidency. In 1804, Jefferson was reelected overwhelmingly to a second term.
As president, Jefferson assertively defended the nation's shipping and trade interests against Barbary pirates and aggressive British trade policies, promoted a western expansionist policy with the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the nation's geographic size, and was able to reduce military forces and expenditures following successful negotiations with France. In his second presidential term, Jefferson was beset by difficulties at home, including the trial of his former vice president Aaron Burr. In 1807, Jefferson implemented the Embargo Act to defend the nation's industries from British threats to U.S. shipping, limiting foreign trade and stimulating the birth of the American manufacturing industry. Presidential scholars and historians praise Jefferson's public achievements, including his advocacy of religious freedom and tolerance, his peaceful acquisition of the Louisiana Territory from France, and his leadership in supporting the Lewis and Clark Expedition; they give radically differing interpretations of his views on and relationship with slavery.
Jefferson is ranked by both scholars and in public opinion among the upper-tier of American presidents.