Gallery-1783-1859
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Gallery
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"The foundation of American government," painting by Henry Hintermeister of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and others signing the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. Image: Library of Congress
Petition dated February 3, 1790, submitted by Benjamin Franklin as President of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, asking Congress to abolish slavery, with Franklin dying a little more than two months later at the age of 84. Image: National Archives
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Sample excerpt from notes written by James Madison of debates at Constitutional Convention, Image: Library of Congress
First page of George Washington's handwritten Farewell Address delivered after he decided not to seek a third term with text later printed in Philadelphia’s American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796. Image: National Archives/New York Public Library
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"Washington's reception by the ladies, on passing the bridge at Trenton, N.J. April,--1789: on his way to New York to be inaugurated first President of the United States" lithograph printed by Currier and Ives in 1845. Image: Library of Congress
1903 map highlights in red the territory included in the Louisiana Purchase bought from France in 1803 comprising 820,000 square miles, split eventually among the 16 states whose borders are outlined in black. Image: National Archives
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First page of George Washington's First Inaugural Address delivered on April 30, 1789. Image: National Archives
“Capture of the City of Washington” depicting British soldiers setting fire to Washington on August 24, 1814, during War of 1812, based on an engraving from Rapin’s History of England, published by J. & J. Gundee, Albion Press, London, 1815. Image: Smithsonian National Museum of American History
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First page of Congressional Conference committee report released March 1, 1820 on legislation to implement the Missouri Compromise admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine (formerly part of Massachusetts) as a free state and with the exception of Missouri prohibiingd slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line Image: National Archives
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Lithograph entitled "President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House" depicting crowds in front of the White House during President Andrew Jackson's first inaugural reception in March 1829, Drawing by Robert Cruickshank published in the The Playfair papers in London by Saunders and Otley in 1841. Image: Library of Congress
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Photograph of Dred Scott, plaintiff and slave seeking freedom in Dred Scott v. Sandford case decided against him by US Supreme Court in 1857. Image: Library of Congress
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"Reynolds's political map of the United States" designed to show the comparative area of the free and slave states and the territory open to slavery or freedom by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Image: Library of Congress
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1856 Republican Campaign Poster of John C. Frémont and William Dayton Image: Wikipedia
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