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United States History, 1490--1864, Dr. Miguda

Industrialization

Virginia Humanities: Encyclopedia Virginia:  Cotton Gin Patent [1793] (scanned copy of original schematics by Eli Whitney)

Emerging America:  “A System of Real Reciprocity” Cincinnati, Ohio. August 3, 1830. (excerpted from The Works of Henry Clay Comprising His Life, Correspondence and Speeches--transcription)

 

Capitalism

National Archives: Milestone Documents: McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) (scanned original and transcription)

National Archives: Milestone Documents:  Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) (scanned original and transcription)

Yale Law School:  Lillian Goldman Law Library:  The Avalon Project:  Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital [by Thomas Hodgskin 1825, transcription]

Class System 1800--1850s

SUNY OER Services:  US History 1 (OS Collection):  Primary Source Reading: Lowell Mill Girls; Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls (transcription)