Social Policy Before 1878

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2 Social Policy before 1878

Introduction to Social Policy Before 1878 … 69

PRIMARY SOURCES

Amendment XIII to the United States Constitution… 70
Lyman Trumbull, 1865

XIV Amendment … 71
Thaddeus Stevens, 1868

First Census … 73
Anonymous, 1791

On Indian Removal… 76
Andrew Jackson, 1830

American Notes … 78
Charles Dickens, 1842

The Fleet Prison … 81
Anonymous, 1846

Smoking Him Out … 83
Nathaniel Currier, 1848

Clay's Resolutions … 86
Henry Clay, 1850

An Act Concerning the Attendance of Children at School… 88
General Court of Massachusetts, 1852

The Know-Nothing Party … 90
Anonymous, 1844

On the Know-Nothing Party … 92
Abraham Lincoln, 1855

Homestead Act of 1862 … 94
Galusha A. Grow, 1862

Morrill Act of 1862 … 97
Justin Smith Morrill, 1862

An Act to Establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees … 100
U.S. Congress, 1865

Special Field Orders No. 15 … 103
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1865

Andrew Johnson Kicking out the Freedmen's Bureau … 105
Thomas Nast, 1866

Education of the Freedmen … 108
Anonymous, 1866

Anti-Chinese Political Cartoon … 111
Anonymous, 1877

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