in+a+primary+manner
71Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms — ▪ Primary Source In his annual message to Congress on January 6, 1941, President Roosevelt called upon Congress to enact the Lend Lease program that he had first proposed at a press conference the previous December. Though the first… …
72Theodore Roosevelt: Controlling the Trusts — ▪ Primary Source Theodore Roosevelt s ability to coin the right phrases and to grasp the essence of the public mood made him one of the most popular and effective presidents of this century. Known in the history books as the trustbuster,… …
73Theodore Roosevelt: False Sentimentality About the Indians — ▪ Primary Source Theodore Roosevelt favored a rational and equitable policy toward Native Americans, but he firmly believed that the Indian nations had no claim to the land they inhabited and were in fact nomadic people who by… …
74William Howard Taft: Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Thursday, March 4, 1909 Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office upon which he is about to enter,… …
75Martin Van Buren: Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Monday, March 4, 1837 The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation I cheerfully fulfill to accompany the first and solemn act of my public trust with an avowal of the principles that will guide me… …
76F.Y. Hedley: Marching Through Georgia — ▪ Primary Source Marching Through Georgia is an account of Sherman s March from the standpoint of soldiers in the ranks. F.Y. Hedley, a member of the 32nd Illinois Infantry, set out to describe how the ordinary soldier lived, how he… …
77Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland: Controversy Over Hawaii — ▪ Primary Source President Benjamin Harrison s policy of overseas expansion in search of foreign markets coincided with the desire of the white businessmen of Hawaii for annexation by the United States. Annexation would provide stable… …
78John Tyler: Dorr's Rebellion — ▪ Primary Source The rebellion led by Thomas Dorr in Rhode Island in 1842 had arisen over the establishment of a new constitution. The issue was whether the people of the state had the right to create a new constitution without the consent… …
79Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom Defies Simon Legree (1852) — ▪ Primary Source Few attacks upon slavery were as effective as Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin. First written as a serial for the abolitionist journal National Era beginning in 1851, it appeared in book form in 1852. It was an… …
80Langston Hughes: The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926) — ▪ Primary Source A novelist, short story writer, and poet, Langston Hughes was one of the most prolific writers of the Harlem Renaissance. The ideas that he popularized were influential in shaping the attitudes of African American writers… …
