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Erie Canal, early photograph

Nat Turner's Rebellion 1831 frontispiece for a book by Samuel Warner, Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene Which was Witnessed in Southampton County (Virginia) on Monday the 22d of August Last, When Fifty-five of its Inhabitants (mostly women and children) were inhumanly Massacred by the Blacks!

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States by Joseph Story 1833

5 Gambblers are lynch by vigilantees for killing a physician

Francis McIntosh Lynching (St. Louis, Missouri)

An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836)

Angelina Emily Grimke 1836

pro-slavery mob setting fire to Gilman & Godfrey's warehouse 1837

Princeton Incident 1844

A campaign banner for the Democratic Party candidates of the US Presidential Election of 1844: James K. Polk (left) and his running mate George M. Dallas (right). Lithograph with watercolor by Nathaniel Currier, 1844. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Gen. Zachary Taylor leads the American troops at the Battle of Palo Alto (8 May 1846). By an artist with the initials C.S., published by N. Currier, 1846. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Gen. Taylor wins the battle of Resaca de la Palma May 9, 1846

“Provided that as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory

from the Republic of Mexico, by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be

negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the monies therein

appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall (illegible word) exist in any part

of said territory except for crime whereof the party shall be first duly convicted.” https://www.archives.gov/files/legislative/resources/education/wilmot-polk/wilmot-proviso.pdf

Capture of Monterey - Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot / Carl Nebel 1851

Battle of Río San Gabriel

Bombardment of Vera Cruz - Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot / After Carl Nebel  1851

Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott wins the battle of Molino del Rey

Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott wins the Battle of Chapultepec

Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Captures Mexico City

Gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill, CA

https://docsteach.org/document/guadalupe-hidalgo-original/