DBQ 3 -

Analyze the significance of these documents as they speak to the young nation's attempt to come to terms with its self-identity.

April 30, 1803 -- Louisiana Purchase
Treaty between the U.S. and France

1800s - Political Ad

December 24, 1814 -- Treaty of Ghent
Treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain

1820 Map -
Free and Slave States

December 2, 1823 -- Monroe Doctrine
by James Monroe

January 1, 1831 -- The Liberator #1
by William Lloyd Garrison

1832 - South Carolina
Political Tract

February 6, 1837 -- Slavery a Positive Good
by John C. Calhoun

1837 -- The American Scholar
by Ralph Waldo Emerson