1. APUSH Major Primary Sources Period 5 (1844-1877)
Includes paintings, engravings, photographs, political cartoons, speeches, documents with hyperlinks for additional information and video links.
Also includes secondary source maps, charts, and historical depictions.
Compiled by John Burkowski Jr.
Academy for Advanced Academics

2. Annexation John L. O’Sullivan 1845

3. American Progress John Gast 1872

4. Map of Overland Trails

5. Electoral Map: 1844

6. Excerpt from A Letter to Hon
Excerpt from A Letter to Hon. Henry Clay Reverend William Ellery Channing 1837

7. Excerpt from Congressional Globe Senator George McDuffie (D-SC) 1844

8. Excerpt from Speech in the U.S. Senate Thomas Hart Benton (D-MO) 1844

9. Legislature of Massachusetts Charles Sumner 1847

10. Editorial New York Sun 1847

11. Excerpt from Speech on the Mexican-American War Henry Clay 1847

12. Excerpt from Spot Resolutions in the House of Representatives Abraham Lincoln 1848

13. Electoral Map: 1848

14. Map of Compromise of 1850

15. “Caution!! Colored People of Boston” 1851

16. Map of Underground Railroad

17. Electoral Map: 1852

18. Excerpt from Speech on Kansas-Nebraska Act Stephen Douglas (D-IL) 1854

19. Map of Kansas-Nebraska Act

20. Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Free Soiler 1856

21. Southern Chivalry – Argument versus Clubs John L. Magee 1856

22. Electoral Map: 1856

23. Excerpt from Majority Decision – Scott v
Excerpt from Majority Decision – Scott v. Sandford Chief Justice Roger Taney 1857

24. House Divided Speech Abraham Lincoln 1858

25. Freeport Doctrine Stephen Douglas 1858

26. Electoral Map: 1860

27. The Union is Dissolved! 1861

28. Excerpt from Corner Stone Speech Alexander Stephens 1861
“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition. [Applause.] This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science. It has been so even amongst us.”

29. Scott’s Great Snake J.B. Elliot 1861

30. Excerpt from Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln 1863

31. Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln 1863
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

32. Abraham Africanus I. J.F. Feeks 1864

33. Compromise With the South Thomas Nast 1864

34. Electoral Map: 1864

35. Excerpt from Second Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln 1865

36. The Freedman’s Bureau! December 31, 1865

37. Emancipation Thomas Nast 1865

38. Pardon: “Shall I Trust These Men. ”; Franchise: “And Not This Man
Pardon: “Shall I Trust These Men?”; Franchise: “And Not This Man?” Thomas Nast 1865

39. Excerpts of Black Codes 1865

40. Awkward Collision on the Grand Trunk Columbia R.R. November, 1866

41. Speech in Congress Thaddeus Stevens (R-MA) 1866

42. Map of Southern Military Districts

43. The First Vote 1867

44. Electoral Map: 1868

45. Electoral Map: 1872

46. The Freedmen’s Bureau Alfred Waud 1868

47. This Is a White Man’s Government Thomas Nast 1868

48. The Man with the (Carpet) Bags Thomas Nast 1872

49. “The Union as it Was / The Lost Cause, Worse Than Slavery” Thomas Nast 1874

50. Electoral Map: 1876

51. Compromise - Indeed! Thomas Nast 1877

52. The ”Strong” Government, 1869-1877 The “Weak” Government, 1877-1881 James Wales

53. Map of the Southern Resources

54. Excerpt from The New South Henry Grady 1886

55. The Graveyard Orator Puck 1887