Early America & the Westward Movement

Birth of A Nation
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
George Washington: First Inaugural Address (1789)

Expansion
John L. O'Sullivan: Our Manifest Destiny (1845)
Birth and Growth of a Railroad Town (1855)
Nostalgic Songs of the Westward Movement
The Homestead Act (1862)

The Gold Rush
Walter Colton (1797-1851): "The blacksmith dropped his hammer...
Bennett C. Clark (1819-1890): "Wagons as far as the eye can reach . . .
A Miner's Song: Days of Forty-Nine