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Learning Community LRCM8601: Smackdown: The Battle For Control - FALL 2003
Online Research Resources

Bacon's Rebellion:
Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion
People & Events - Bacon's Rebellion:1675 - 1676
The Story of Bacon's Rebellion

Salem Witch Trials
An Account of Events in Salem
The 1692 Salem Witch Trials

Law and the media: the John Peter Zenger case
John Peter Zenger and Freedom of the Press
The trial of John Peter Zenger

The Boston Massacre Files
Captain Thomas Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre (13 March 1770)
Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre

Boston Tea Party Eyewitness Account by a Participant
The Boston Tea Paty
The Boston Tea Party, 1773

Marbury vs Madison
WILLIAM MARBURY v. JAMES MADISON
The Marshall-Cases: Marbury v. Madison (1803)

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
The Marshall-Cases: McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
McCulloch v. Maryland
The Reader's Companion to American History - McCULLOCH V. MARYLAND

Milestone documents: Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Full-text: GIBBONS, Appellant, v.OGDEN, Respondent. March 2, 1824
The Marshall-Cases: Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

Online Research Resources (continued)

The Trail of Tears
Removal of the Cherokees to Oklahoma
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
The Cherokee "Trail of Tears" -1838-1839

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
Nullification Crisis
Nullification confrontation of 1832-1833
"Disunion, by armed force, is TREASON"

Primary sources: Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion - 1831
"To Rebel and Make Insurrection"
Nat Turner's Rebellion

Chronology and original documents: Dred Scott Case"
The two trials of Dred Scott in 1847 and 1850
African American History: Dred Scott

Other Helpful Online Sites:

Public-domain graphic sites:
[These are sites where you can copy and paste photographs and images for use in research assignments]

Library of Congress "Prints and Photographs"
The New York Public Library Photography Collection
100 Years of Photography from the National Archives
Free National Park Service photos
American Law Sources
Historical Maps of the United States:

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