No, I didn't go out and collect all of these by myself.  This list was lifted from another APUSH teacher who said she could see no sense to inventing the wheel twice.
There's lots of good stuff here.  In particular, have a look at the political cartoons.  

 

1810: "American Shakers" broadside (early 1800s)
Census Data for the Year 1810
Fletcher v. Peck 
 Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, Speeches
1811: The Debate over War in Congress
Journal of a Voyage Up the Mississippi River - Henry Marie Brackenridge
1812: The American Debate Over the War of 1812
Documents for Debate on Going to War in 1812
 Economic Nationalism and Sectionalism - "Report of Commissioners
      Appointed to Survey a Route for a Canal and Road Connection
      Between the James and Ohio Rivers" Chief Justice John Marshall,
      chairman (12/26)

Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin
"Gerrymander" - an anonymous political cartoon 

James Madison Speech to a Joint Session of Congress
Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri - John
      C. Luttig

Songs and Lyrics of the War of 1812
U. S. v. Hudson and Goodwin
The War of 1812 - assorted documents of the war
1813: "Naval Battle Between the United States and the Macedonian on
      October 30, 1812- a painting by Thomas Birch

Second Inaugural Address of James Madison
1814: Amendments to the Constitution as Proposed by the Hartford
      Convention

Star Spangled Banner Lyrics
The Treaty of Ghent
1815: A Convention to Regulate the Commerce - Britain & the U. S.
Excerpt from the Memoirs of Susan Mansfield Huntington
Jackson's letter describing the Battle of New Orleans 
Memoirs of Susan Mansfield Huntington of MA - excerpts
Request of a Free Black Person to Remain in Virginia
1816: The Barbary Treaties 
John Bigelow, "Inaugural Address"
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer regarding the
      Dartmouth College
case (7/21)

"The Western Country," Extracts from Letters Published in
       Niles' Weekly Register
1817: Excerpt from the Cotton Book of G. W. Lovelace
First Inaugural Address of James Monroe
Meeting of Free People of Color of Richmond, Virginia
Opening of the New York to Liverpool Packet Line
 Rush-Bagot Agreement
1818: "About the Banks" - Hezekiah Niles in Niles' Weekly Register (11/7)
Building of the Erie Canal - William H. Seward (1818-1825) 
John Taylor, Arator: Being a Series of Agricultural Essays,
      Practical and Political
- The Future of the Union

Observations on the Real Rights of Women - Hannah
      Crocker - excerpts
1819: Adams-Onis Treaty
American State Papers, Military Affairs, "Description of
      the United States Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts"

Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Extract from the Albany Daily Advertiser
"Improving Female Education" - Emma Willard
McCulloch v. Maryland
Tallmadge's Speech to Congress
1820: Census Data for the Year 1820
Charles Pickney's Speech to Congress
Compromise of 1820 - Tallmadge Amendment
Compromise of 1820 - Taylor's Amendment
Compromise of 1820 - Thomas's Amendment
Cotton Boom in Alabama and Mississippi
Hile v. Webb - divorce case regarding equity (Rhode Island
      Supreme Court)

 James Madison - in his own word - excerpts from 1820s
      to his death
John Quincy Adams & John C. Calhoun Discuss the
      Compromise of 1820
 The Missouri Compromise - James G. Blaine
Missouri Enabling Act
Record of the US Senate Debate on the Admission of MO 
"Sectionalism and the Missouri Compromise" - Thomas
      Jefferson to John Holmes, 22 April 1820 - Writings of Thomas
      Jefferson
(1854), volume 7

Taylor Amendment (1/26)
Thomas Amendment (2/17)
1821: Cohens v. Virginia
Second Inaugural Address of James Monroe
Warning Against the Search for "Monsters to Destroy" - John Quincy Adams
1822: Denmark Vesey brought before the Court
Exposition on Slavery - Richard Furman

"Reflections, Occasioned by the late Disturbances in Charleston " (11/4)
1823: British Foreign Secretary George Canning's Overture for a Joint Declaration
      with the United States on the Spanish Colonies in America

John Quincy Adams's Account of the Cabinet Meeting of 11/7
Joshua & Sally Wilson Letters to George Wilson
Monroe Doctrine
Monroe Letter to Jefferson Seeking Foreign Policy Advice
"The Morality of Manufactures" - Nile's Weekly Register
Thomas Jefferson on the Monroe Doctrine (10/24)
1824: Gibbons v. Ogden
Gottfried Duden - Letters - Frontier and Wilderness Life
      (1824-1825)

Notices & Advertisements from the New York Evening Post
1825: "Christian Motherhood" etching
First Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adams
Peter Skene Ogden's Journal of His Journey into Utah
Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Henry Lee
Various Documents on Robert Owen's New Harmony
      community (1825-26)
 Womens' Fashions: 1825-1840 - various pictures
1826: "The Common Schools of Massachusetts" -  James G. Carter's
      Essays on Popular Education
Death of Adams & Jefferson on the Same Day - Thomas
      H. Benton
Description of Levi Coffin's Underground Railroad station

Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Roger C. Weightman
Treaty between the United States and Hawaii (12/26)
1827: Elias Boudimott Proposes a Cherokee Newspaper
Freedom's Journal - first African American newspaper
      (3/16/1827) - excerpts
1828: "Black Charge" - political cartoon by Edward Williams Clay
The Election of 1828 as Seen from New York City 
Jim Crow caricature
Lyman Beecher - "Six Sermons on Intemperance"
SC's Protest Against the Tariff of 1828 - John C. Calhoun's speech
 Treaty With the Potawatami
1829: Daniel Webster Anticipates Jackson's Arrival in Washington, D.C.
Executive Order Regarding Military Pensions - Andrew Jackson

First Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson
First State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Jackson Announces His Policy of Rotation in Office - speech
Letter from Nicholas Biddle to Josiah Nichol (about govt. interference)
Margaret Bayard Smith Describes the Inaugural Celebration
 "The Profession of a Woman" - Catherine Beecher

"The Return of Rip Van Winkle" - painting by John Quidor
The Rights of Man to Property! - Thomas Skidmore
Various Documents on the Removal of the Cherokee Nation (1829-1838)
The Working Men's Declaration of Independence - George H. Evans
1830: "Address to the Free People of Colour of these United States" - Richard
      Allen on behalf of the colored citizens of Philadelphia (9/20-24)

Census Data for the Year 1830
Charles Finney Recalls his Days in Oneida County, New York
Cherokee Indian Removal Debate - U.S. Senate, April 15-17, 1830
Chicksaw Treaty
"The Georgia Gold Rush" - From the Niles' Weekly Register. XXXIX: 995
      (10/9)

President Jackson Reports on Indian Removal - speech to Congress
Indian Removal Act
Jackson's Veto of the Maysville Road Bill
Letter from Nicholas Biddle to Samuel Smith about President Jackson's
      message of 1829
"Liberty & Union, Now & Forever, One & Inseparable" speech - Daniel
      Webster

"Niagara Falls" - painting by Thomas Cole
 Preemption & Homestead Acts (1830, 1841)
Proclamation Regarding the Opening of United States Ports to British
      Vessels - Andrew Jackson

Rules for Husbands and Wives - Mathew Carey 
Second State of the Union Address - President Jackson
"Six Essays on Education" - George Henry Evans (Essay VI)
Webster-Hayne Debates
Workingman's Party Platform
1831: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Democracy in America by de Tocqueville (full text)
Letter to Nicholas Biddle from Henry Clay - advises Biddle not to seek
      re-charter

Nat Turner's "Confession"
Prophet Joseph Smith Relays God's Message - speech
The Richmond Enquirer on Nat Turner's Rebellion (8/30/1831)
 Schooling in Early 19c America - American Annals of Instruction
Third State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Tocqueville Appreciates American Political Participation (1831-1832)
Tocqueville Witnesses American Religious Enthusiasm (1831-1832)
Treasury report giving praise to the National Bank
William Lloyd Garrison from The Liberator
1832: "An Address to the Working Men of New England" - Seth Luther (pamphlet excerpt)
African Americans Convene For Their Second National Convention
Andrew Jackson's "Proclamation to the People of SC on Nullification"
Andrew Jackson's Veto of the Bank Bill
Autobiography of John Ball - Across the Plains to Oregon
"Buffalo Bull-A Grand Pawnee Warrior" - painting by George Caitlin
Fourth State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Henry Clay's Speech on the Jackson Bank Veto
Letter from Nicholas Biddle to Henry Clay on the effect of the Bank Veto
      and Biddle's faith in Henry Clay

Nathaniel Wyeth's Journals of His Expeditions into the OR Country
      (1832-1834)

New England Anti-Slavery Society's Thoughts on Colonization
Peter Osborne Speaks to a Crowd Celebrating American Independence,
      (7/5)

Proclamation Regarding Nullification (Dec. 10) - Andrew Jackson
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
Worcester v. Georgia
1833: "Advice to Politicians" - Davy Crockett
American Anti-Slavery Society Constitution
Life of Black Hawk
Calhoun's Speech Against the Force Bill - Day 1 (2/15/1833)
Calhoun's Speech Against the Force Bill - Day 2 (2/16/1833)

Fifth State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Force Bill
Henry Clay on Political Power (1834, 1840)
 James Madison to Daniel Webster - "Right to Revolution" -
      Writings 9:604-
5

Letter from Andrew Jackson to Martin Van Buren discussing the
      nullification crisis (1/13)

Message to the Senate and House Regarding South Carolina's
      Nullification Ordinance (1/16) - Andrew Jackson
Message to the Senate Regarding South Carolina's Nullification
      Ordinance (1/22) - Andrew Jackson

Philadelphia Declaration, National Anti-Slavery Society
Second Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson
William Sprague Describes Revivals
1834: Burning of a Charleston Ursuline Convent - Boston Evening
      Transcript
(8/12/1834)

"Early Habits of Industry" - The Mother's Magazine
"Kidnapping a free Negro to be sold into slavery" - woodcut
"The Peaceable Kingdom" - painting by Edward Hicks
Poem/Song Lyrics of the Lowell Factory Girls (1834, 1836)

Sixth State of the Union Address - President Jackson
1835: The Appeal to Moral Reform for Antebellum Northern
      Women - many docs. (1835-1841)
The Activity of the Body Politic" -  from Democracy in America
      by Alexis de Tocqueville
"The Canal Boat", New England Magazine - Nathaniel
      Hawthorne

Declaration of the People of Texas (11/7)
The Demand for a 10-Hour Work Day by Boston Artisans
First Annual Report of the Female Moral Reform Society of the
      City of New York

"The General Tendency of the Laws" -  from Democracy in America
      by Alexis de Tocqueville

"Gentle Advice to Teachers" - Jacob Abbot
Grand Row at Tammany Hall, NY - Nile's Weekly Register
John Jay Shipherd's Pastoral Letter
Nativism - Samuel F. B. Morse
"Nature's Wonderland" - painting by Thomas Doughty
Nicholas Biddle - Commencement Address
Runaway notice for Harriet Jacobs
Samuel F. B. Morse's colored sketch of railway telegraph
Seventh State of the Union Address - President Jackson
Society, Manners, & Politics in America - Michel Chevalier
Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation - Oliver Bolokitten, Esq." (pseudonym)
"The Sovereignty of the People" -  from Democracy in America by Alexis
      de Tocqueville

The Treaty of New Echota (12/29)
Views on the Commercialization of the Countryside - Mary
      Graham Describes Life on a Massachusetts Farm, (1835-1844)

"What a Revival of a Religion Is" - Charles Finney
1836: An Account of a Visitor to Lowell
"Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" - Angelina Grimké
Eighth State of the Union Address - President Jackson
The Fateful Speculative Boom of 1836-1837

The Harbinger - Female Workers at Lowell, MA 
Harriet Robinson, Lowell Mill Girl - recollection of the strike of 1836
Cherokee Letter Protesting the Treaty of Etocha

"Loom and Spindle" - Harriet Robinson
Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation
Narrative of the Late Riotous Proceedings Against the Liberty of the Press -
     
The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society,
Cincinnati

"A Political Testament" - Andrew Jackson
Stephen Austin - address delivered at Louisville
Texas Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Velasco - between the U. S. and Mexico
William Travis' Letter From the Commandancy of the Alamo
1837: "A Subordinate Position in Society" - Catherine Beecher     
"The American Scholar" - Ralph Waldo Emerson - speech given to the Phi
      Beta Kappa Society at Harvard University
"The Blessings of Slavery" - Anonymous Editorial in the New York
      newspaper Plaindealer (2/25/1837)    
Catherine Beecher Condemns Abolitionism
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge 
"The Christian's Harp" - Samuel Wakefield - revival song

"Concord Hymn" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Democratic Review:  An Introductory Statement of the Democratic
      Principle: - J. L. O'Sullivan
First Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren
"I never saw a busier place than Chicago …" - Harriet Martineau
"Outrage!" - abolitionist handbill (2/27)
"Slavery:  A Positive Good" - John C. Calhoun (2/6)
Society, Manners and Politics in the United States - Michel Chevalier
Ralph Waldo Emerson on the American Scholar
"Slavery Is a Positive Good" - John C. Calhoun
1838: Angelina Grimké Weld's speech at Pennsylvania Hall
Thoughts on Miss S. M. Grimke's 'Duties of Woman,'" Advocate
      of Moral Reform

The Break-Up of a Slave Family, GA
The Democratic Principle - John L. O'Sullivan
"Just Treatment of Licentious Men.  Addressed to Christian Mothers,
      Wives Sisters, and Daughters" - Friend of Virtue
The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions:  Address Before the
      Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois - Abraham Lincoln (one
      of his earliest known speeches)
1839: Constitution of the Cherokee Nation (in Cherokee at the beginning with
      the English translation at mid-page)

"The Effects of Intemperancy" - drawing
Excerpt from "Essay Read at a monthly prayer meeting of an
      auxiliary Female Moral Reform Society," Advocate of Moral
      Reform
(11/1)

"Manifest Destiny" - John L. O'Sullivan
"Personal Narratives" - Theodore Weld's American Slavery As It Is
Peleg Sprague Campaigns for William Henry Harrison
Reverend M'Ilvaine Denounces Intemperance
"Three Hundred Dollars Reward" - broadside issued by William K. Ish
      and Joseph L. Hawling to recover three slaves
1840: 1840 Presidential Election Campaign Song Lyrics
 Ad for the Harrison "Log Cabin & Cider" Campaign
An American View of Mexican California - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Census Data for the Year 1840
Daniel O'Connell to Lucretia Mott, "With Reference to the Rejection
      of Female Delegates by the World's Convention in London" (6/20)

"Hints to Young Ladies on an Important Subject," Advocate of Moral
      Reform
(8/1)
Horace Mann Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education
Immigration by Place of Origin:  1840-1860 - chart
Letters of John and Elizabeth Hodgdon

"The Lowell Offering" main page of the factory newspaper
"Notions of the Americans" - James Fennimore Cooper
Orestes A. Brownson's speech on "Free Labor"
"Petitions of the Catholics of America"
  Railroad Growth, 1840-1860 - chart
"Stop That Barrel" - political cartoon on the 1840 election
The "Tippecanoe & Tyler, Too" Campaign - Horace Greeley     
1841: "A Second Declaration of Independence…" - J. W. Goodrich
Arguments of John Q. Adams Before the Supreme Court
      (Amistad Case)

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison
James Henry Hammond's Diaries - selections (1841-1842)
"A Letter from Brook Farm" - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Letter from Kale (of the Amistad) to John Quincy Adams
Letter from Kinna (of the Amistad) to John Quincy Adams

New Orleans Slave Auction
"Self-Reliance" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Song of the Spinners" (Lowell Mill, MA)
The Supreme Court Decision on the Amistad Case
Tabitha Dreams of a Better Society - one of the Lowell Mill Girls
A Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at
      Home and at School
- Catherine E. Beecher

"What is it, to 'Cease from Man?'" Editorial, Advocate of Moral
      Reform
(10/1)
1842: American Notes - Charles Dickens (Massachusetts Asylum for
      the Blind; Meeting Laura Bridgeman)

"Have You Seen Sam?" - nativist poster from The Dollar
      Weekly Times
Lecture on Transcendentalism - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations from (and About) Horace Greeley (1840s-1870s)
Temperance Address - Abraham Lincoln (Springfield Washington
      Temperance Society

Webster-Ashburton Treaty
1843: An Address to the Slaves of the United States - Henry Garnet -
      "A Call to Rebellion"

Anti-Slavery and Anti-Abolitionist Images
Dorothea Dix Speaks Out On Behalf of Insane Persons
 "Massachusetts to Virginia" - poem by John Greenlief Whittier
Slavery's Pleasant Homes - Lydia Maria Child (abolitionist fiction)
1844: Across the Plains in 1844 - from the journals of Catherine
      Sager Pringle
First telegraph message (5/24)
A Fugitive Slave Writes to His Former Master
The Liberty Party 1844 Convention
"Martyrdom of Joseph & Hiram Smith in Carthage Jail" -
      lithograph
Philadelphia Anti-Catholic Riots - Pennsylvania Freeman
      (7/18/1844)

Presidential Voting by States: 1844-1860
1845: "A Week in the Mill" - article in The Lowell Offering
"The Cruise of the Dove" - a whaler's song
Daily Wage Rates on the Erie Canal, 1845-1870 - statistical chart

Eulogy of Andrew Jackson - Jefferson Davis (6/28)
"Female Industrial Association" - New York Herald
"The Great Nation of Futurity" - John L. O'Sullivan
Inaugural Address of James K. Polk
John Humphrey Noyes and Bible Communism
Narrative and Life of Frederick Douglass excerpts
Resolutions of the Boston Carpenters' Strike
 Treaty for the Annexation of Texas (3/1/1845)
Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup - excerpt
A Vermont Girl Goes to Work at the Lowell Mills (1845-1853)
1846: "Christian Non-Resistance" - Adin Balou
David Wilmot Argues For a Free California
A Description of Early Factory Life - Lowell, MA
The Donner Party's Log Entries (4/1846)

Ja Norcom Letter to Mary Matilda Norcom - Edenton, NC
The Mexican War & Slavery - political cartoons (1846-1848)
 The Oregon Treaty 
President Polk's War Message
 Tenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts
      State Board of Education
- Horace Mann

Whig cartoon - "Funeral Obsequies of Free Trade"
Wilmot Proviso
1847: "Against the Mexican War" - Thomas Corwin
 Average Monthly Salaries, Including Board, of Teachers in
      1847 (towards bottom of page)

Daguerreotypes of Pierce Butler, GA plantation owner (1847-1850s)
David Wilmot Argues for a Free California
Elizabeth Dixon Smith Geer, pioneer journal (1847-1850) - full journal entries
Independent Treasury Act
Letters on the Masonic Institution - John Quincy Adams 
Manifest Destiny assorted quotations (1847-1848)
"Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, as Dictated to Charles Campbell
      by Isaac"

Mexican War - assorted readings 
Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln about his early boyhood

"Report on Abolition" - National Convention of Colored People
1848: The Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls Convention
Free Soil Party Platform
"The Leg I Left Behind Me" - poem on the Mexican War
Lowell Factory Rules
New York Barnburners & the Free Soil Party Convention

The North Star on Seneca Falls
"Report from the Massachusetts Board of Education" - Horace Mann
“A Rush to the Gold Washings,” from the California Star
Slave Codes of the State of Georgia
"To the West!" song lyrics
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings,
      Compiled by William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1848)
1849: "Civil Disobedience" - Henry David Thoreau
The Constitution of the State of Deseret - the Mormons (7/18)
The Decision to Publish The Scarlet Letter
"Frederick Douglass on Colonization" North Star (1/26)
From the Diary of Alvin Coffey, African American 49er 
Inaugural Address of Zachary Taylor
 "Irish Immigration to the U. S." - statistical charts (1825-1849)
Miner’s Ten Commandments
"Sacramento" - song about the CA Gold Rush
"The Southern Address" - John C. Calhoun
U. S. Treaty with the Hawaiian Islands (12/20)
1850: "Argument on Woman's Rights," by H.H. Van Amringe, as reprinted
      in the Proceedings of the 1850 Convention

Calhoun's Speech on the Compromise of 1850
Census Data for the Year 1850

Clay's Resolutions of 1850 (1/29)
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
The Compromise of 1850
"Following the Drinking Gourd" - song lyrics of the Underground
      Railroad (1850s?)

Fugitive Slave Act
Godey's Lady Book Online
"Grand Demonstration of Petticoatdom at Worcester--The 'Woman's
      Rights' Convention in Full blast--Important and Interesting Report" -
      Boston Daily Mail
, Evening Edition, Friday (10/25)

"Higher Law" speech - William Henry Seward
"The Negro Woman's Appeal to Her White Sisters" Richard
      Barrett, ca. 1850s Broadside

New Railroad Mileage Charts (by region), 1850-1860
The New York Herald supports the Compromise of 1850
Parker Pillsbury, "Woman's Rights Convention and People of
      Color," The North Star (12/5/1850)

Slave-owning Population, 1850 - chart
"The Stability of the Union" - De Bow's Review
Stephen A. Douglas's speech on California Admission
The Underground Railroad - Levi Coffin
"The Vacant Chair" - poem by Richard Coe, Jr. in Godey's Lady's Book (Jan.)
William Swain Letter written from "The Diggings" in California
"Woman's Mission," by Ebenezer Elliot. The North Star (10/3)
"Women's Rights Convention" - as reported in The New York Herald,
      Saturday (10/26)

Woman's Rights Convention and People of Color," The North Star 
      (12/5) - Parker Pillsbury
1851: "Ain't I A Woman?" - Sojourner Truth
"Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" - Dr. Samuel Cartwright in
      De Bow's Review Southern and Western States
(Volume XI, New Orleans)

Frances Gage Remembers Sojourner Truth Appearing At the
      Akron Convention

George W. Putnam, "A Poem," for the Woman's Rights
      Convention, Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention,
      Akron, Ohio

Letter from Elizabeth Blackwell to Baroness Anne Isabella Milbanke
      Byron concerning women's rights and the education of women
      physicians (3/4)

The True Remedy for the Wrongs of Woman; with a History of an Enterprise
      Having That for its Object
- Catherine E. Beecher [written as a series of
      letters to her sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe]

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" - painting by Emmanuel
      Gottlieb Leutze
1852: "An American Slave Market" - oil painting
Exposure of the American Colonization Society - William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass "Independence Day" Speech
Know-Nothing Oath (mid-page)
Thomas R. Dew Defends Slavery
Treaty with the Apache 
Uncle's Tom Cabin caricatures
Uncle Tom's Cabin excerpt - Harriet Beecher Stowe
White and Chinese miners hoping to strike it rich during the California
      Gold Rush at Auburn Ravine (photo)
1853: Gadsden Purchase Treaty
Inaugural Address of Franklin Pierce
"Progress (The Advance of Civilization)" - a painting by Asher
      Brown Durand

A Sermon "Of the public function of woman, preached at the
      Music Hall" (3/27/1853) by Theodore Parker
The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign - Henry Carey
Timetable of the Lowell Mills - scanned broadsheet 
William Lloyd Garrison at the Woman's Rights Convention (9/6)
1854: Appeal of the Independent Democrats
Chief Seattle, Oration
 Commodore Matthew Perry:  When We Landed in Japan
Examiner's questions for admittance to the American (or Know
      Nothing) Party (July)

 "Fragments on Slavery" - Abraham Lincoln
"The Kansas Emigrants" - poem by John Greenlief Whittier
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act - editorials from over 20 newspapers
"Let the People Speak Out" - From The New York Tribune
      (2/13)

Letter from Edward Bridgman - about "Bleeding KS"
 Ostend Manifesto
 President Fillmore's Letter to the Emperor of Japan
"Slavery in Massachusetts" - speech by Henry David Thoreau 
Sociology for the South - George Fitzhugh (excerpts)
Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise - A. Lincoln
 Treaty of Kanagawa
1855:  Excerpt from William Grayson's, "The Hireling and the Slave"
Female Life Among the Mormons - Maria Ward
Inaugural Address of Major Levi Boone of Chicago
Letter of A. Lincoln to Joshua Speed regarding his views on
      slavery (8/24)

Letters of Thomas C. Wells - Kansas pioneer about "Border
      Ruffians" (1855-1866)

Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act
Narratives of Escaped Slaves - Benjamin Drew
"The Public Hiring of Free Negroes" - broadside
Preface to Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Scenes in the Kansas Election - From The Liberator (7/27)
Slave Purchases and Breeding: An Unruly Slave - letter by
      G. B. Wallace
1856: 1856 Campaign - political cartoon
The Canning of Charles Sumner - editorials from over
      20 newspapers 

"Crimes Against Kansas" speech - Charles Sumner
"Democratic Platform, 1856" caricature/political cartoon
"Free State Battery" - photo
"A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States" - Frederick Law
      Olmstead (1856, 1860)
Kansas - the "Reign of Terror" - The New York Tribune
Letter from California vigilante committee to John Stephens (9/5)
A Letter From Edward Bridgman (5/25) about the situation in Kansas
"On the Sumner Assault" by Preston S. Brooks
"The Reign of Terror" - From The New York Tribune (6/12)

Republican Campaign Songster - songs for the 1856 campaign
Republican Party Platform of 1856
Six Months in Kansas - Hannah Anderson Ropes

"Southern Chivalry" - lithograph by John L. Magee
A Southern Response to the Caning of Sumner
"Sumner and Brooks" - Journal American (5/24/1856)
1857: The American Mind and the Traits of Webster, Clay and
      Calhoun by Edwin P. Whipple - excerpt from essay first
      published in Harper's Magazine as "American Mind"
"The American Platform of Principles" (Know-Nothings)

"The Blessings of Slavery" - George Fitzhugh
"Citizenship" - The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, LA
The Discovery of Gold in California by Gen. John Sutter
Dred Scott Decision - Roger B. Taney
Dred Scott Decision - various Supreme Court opinions on case
Dred Scott Case - editorials from over 20 newspapers
Inaugural Address of James Buchanan
Lecompton Constitution

"The Miner's Song"

"Niagara Falls" - painting by Frederic Edwin Church
Northern Outrage over Scott v. Sandford - From The New York
      Tribune (3/7)

"The Life of Plantation Field Hands" from James Sterling's
      Letters from the Slave States
 
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision - Abraham Lincoln
 "We Must Educate!" - page from The McGuffey Reader
1858: Abraham Lincoln - Debate at Gatesburg, IL
"Cotton is King" Excerpts from "On the Admission of Kansas,
      Under the Lecompton Constitution" Speech Before the U.S.
      Senate, 3/4/1858 by James Henry Hammond

Fify Years in Chains; Or, the Life of an American Slave - Charles Ball
"House Divided Speech" - Abraham Lincoln
"The Irrepressible Conflict" - William Seward speech
 Inventory of the Estate of Edward Travis Marable (Granville
      County, NC)
Le Marais Du Cygne - a poem on Kansas by John Greenlief Whittier
      published in the Atlantic Monthly (Sept.)
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between the United States
      and Japan (The Harris Treaty)
 Treaty of Tien-Tsin (6/18/1858)

A Woman's Thoughts About Women - Dinah Marie Mulock Craik
1859: "The Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority" -
      Stephen Douglas
Harpers Ferry headline - John Brown's raid 

John Brown Final Address to the Court
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, VA - editorials from over 20
      newspapers
Letter of William Smith - about Bleeding Kansas
"Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet," Atlantic Monthly (Feb.) -
      Thomas Wentworth Higginson
 Responses to John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry (Ohio Enquirer
      10/19/1859; Chicago, Illinois Press and Tribune 10/20/1859)

Various Documents on the Trial & Execution of John Brown
1860:  Alexander Stevens' Reply to President-Elect Lincoln
Census Data for the Year 1860 
Constitution of the Confederate States of America

Constitutional Union Party Platform - Bell, Everett
"The Cradle and Manner of Using It" - political cartoon about the
      Chinese and the Gold Rush - Hutchings California Magazine

The Crittendon Compromise
Democratic Platform - Stephen A. Douglas
Democratic Platform - John Breckinridge
"[Dividing the] National [Map]" - political cartoon
"The Election in November" by James Russell Lowell - The
      Atlantic Monthly
(10/1860)
"Expulsion of Negroes and Abolitionists from Tremont
      Temple"  -  Harper's Weekly (12/3)

The Fight at the Polls - The Richmond Enquirer (11/1860)
Jefferson Davis - portrait photo by Mathew Brady
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, "Mexicans!"
A Letter from Congressman John Reagan of Texas
"Lincoln and Liberty, Too" - Lincoln's campaign song
      (sound file) with lyrics

Lincoln's Cooper Union Address
"Little Stephen A. Trying to Climb A Very High Chair" -
      political cartoon in Vanity Fair (7/14)

"Our Political Snake Charmer" - political cartoon in
      Vanity Fair (2/11)
"Paul Revere's Ride" - poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Platform of the Alabama Democracy - Montgomery, AL (Jan.)
"A Plea for Free Speech in Boston" - Frederick Douglass (12/4)
 President-Elect Lincoln's Letter to Alexander Stevens
"Prospects of Slavery Expansion" - Charleston Mercury (2/28)
Ratio of Slaveholders to Families, 1850 - statistical chart 
Reaction to Lincoln's Election - The Charleston Mercury
      (11/1860)
Republican National Platform
"The Slave Deck of the Bark 'Wildfire." - illustration in the 6/2 issue of Harper's Weekly
Slave Statistics Information
South Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12/22/1860)
South Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12/25/1860)   
Southern White Population, 1860 - chart
 "The Terrors of Submission" - Charleston Mercury (10/11)     

"What is the True Lesson?" - The Daily Picayune, New Orleans
      (11/4)

"Young America Rising at the Ballot-Box and Strangling
      the Serpents Disunion and Secession" - political cartoon
      Harper's Weekly (9/1)
Late 1850s?: "John Brown's Body Lies A-Moldin' in the Grave" - song lyrics
1872: "American Progress" - painting by John Gast (about Manifest
      Destiny)
1959: "The Battle of New Orleans" - song lyrics by Jimmy Driftwood
      (audio file included)

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