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41Andrew Jackson: First Annual Message to Congress — ▪ Primary Source The election of Andrew Jackson in 1828 marked several important changes in American political life. Traditionally, the President had been a member of a previous President s Cabinet, and what is more a man who had… …
42Abraham Lincoln: A Program for Reconstruction — ▪ Primary Source In his third annual message to Congress on December 8, 1863, Lincoln for the first time presented a program for Reconstruction, a plan marked by considerable leniency. The message was preceded on the same day by a… …
43James Monroe: First Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Tuesday, March 4, 1817 I should be destitute of feeling if I was not deeply affected by the strong proof which my fellow citizens have given me of their confidence in calling me to the high office whose functions I am …
44James K. Polk: Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Tuesday, March 4, 1845 Without solicitation on my part, I have been chosen by the free and voluntary suffrages of my countrymen to the most honorable and most responsible office on earth. I am deeply impressed with… …
45Franklin D. Roosevelt: Request for a Declaration of War — ▪ Primary Source On September 27, 1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, thus bringing Japan s Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere within the Axis coalition. From that time on, American resistance to Japanese… …
46Theodore Roosevelt: The Conservation of Public Lands — ▪ Primary Source President Roosevelt was a conservationist by nature. An enthusiastic outdoorsman, he also recognized that the industrial transformation of the United States since the Civil War had made coal, timber, and other natural… …
47Harry S. Truman: The Truman Doctrine — ▪ Primary Source Throughout 1946 Communist forces, supported by the Soviet satellite states of Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania, carried on a full scale guerrilla war against the Greek government. At the same time the U.S.S.R.… …
48Franklin Pierce: The Military Academy — ▪ Primary Source Many Democrats followed President Andrew Jackson s lead in condemning the Military Academy at West Point, New York. The reasons for the attack are revealed in the following speech delivered to the House of Representatives… …
49Chester Arthur: State of the Union, 1882 — ▪ Primary Source It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and… …
50Nat Turner: Confession (1831) — ▪ Primary Source Nat Turner led the best known of all Southern slave revolts, which occurred on August 21, 1831, and climaxed a three year period of unrest among the slaves during which time Turner had been successful in convincing his… …
