Rude Republic: Americans and their Politics in the Nineteenth Century Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin Research Team Members Report Kit Introduction to Topic First-Order Document "General Tendency of the Laws " by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 Second-Order Document: “An English Reporter Observes An Election Rally” Arguing the Point by Louis Maurer “A Journalist Reports Election Day In New York” “The Black Code of St. Landry’s Parish, Opelousas, Louisiana” Election Day! Possible Third-Order Document on the Web: The Political Cartoons of Thomas Nast, edited by Jim Zwick. The Seneca Falls Declaration, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848. “Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives”, Benjamin Drew (ed.), The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada Related by Themselves (Boston, 1856), pages 260-270, 276-280, 301-305, 314-320. The Fugitive Slave Act, United States Statutes at Large, 1850 Second Treatise of Government, Chapter 2 “Of the State of Nature,” John Locke, 1690. “Letter from Jenny,” Stories Along the Trail of Tears, 1838. “Let The Chinese Embrace Civilization, And They May Stay” (political cartoon), Harper’s Weekly, 1880.

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