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“They are inoffensive, unwarlike people, naked, except that the women wear a very slight covering at the loins; their manners are very decent, and their complexion not very dark”
Christopher Columbus’ Journal of the First Voyage to America
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“They very quickly learn such prayers as we repeat to them, and also to make the sign of the cross”
Christopher Columbus’ Journal of the First Voyage to America
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“So many, therefore, of these professors as saw evil of these things in these parts, and whose hearts the Lord had touched with heavenly zeal for His truth …”
William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation
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“And this I fear will be the ruin of New England, at least of the churches of God there, and will provoke the Lord’s displeasure against them”
William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation
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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government”
Thomas Jefferson’s The Declaration of Independence
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“For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments”
Thomas Jefferson’s The Declaration of Independence
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“When Jesus Christ came upon the earth you killed Him and nailed Him to the cross”
Tecumseh’s “Sell a Country? Why Not Sell the Air?”
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“In the future we are prepared to punish those who propose to sell land to the Americans”
Tecumseh’s “Sell a Country? Why Not Sell the Air?”
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“The wilderness masters the colonist. It finds him a European in dress, industries, tools, models of travel, and thought.”
Frederick Jackson Turner’s The Significance of the Frontier in American History
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“The tendency is anti-social. It produces antipathy to control, and particularly to any direct control. The tax-gatherer is viewed as a representative of oppression”
Frederick Jackson Turner’s The Significance of the Frontier in American History
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“It must be borne in mind that the specializations which characterize the higher races are of relatively recent development, are highly unstable, and when mixed with generalized or primitive characters, tend to disappear”
Madison Grant’s “The Mixture of Two Races”
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“This is a matter of everyday observation, and the working of this law of nature is not influenced or affected by democratic institutions or by religious beliefs”
Madison Grant’s “The Mixture of Two Races”
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“We might as well urge the destruction of the highest existing type of man because he failed to reach our ideas as to favour the destruction of Individualism, Private Property, Accumulation of Wealth …”
Andrew Carnegie’s “Wealth”
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“the best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise”
Andrew Carnegie’s “Wealth”
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“This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”
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“Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that this situation can and will be changed.”
Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”
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“I’m not a Democrat, I’m not a Republican, and I don’t even consider myself an American.”
Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet”
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“The black man in the black community has to be re-educated into the science of politics so he will know what politics is supposed to bring him in return.”
Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet”
Name the text Christopher Columbus wrote
Journal of the First Voyage to America
Who wrote Of Plymouth Plantation?
William Bradford
Who wrote The Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What text did Tecumseh write?
“Sell a Country? Why Not Sell the Air?”
Name the author of The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Frederick Jackson Turner
Who wrote “The Emancipation Proclamation”?
Abraham Lincoln
