Extensions

Extension Activity (Volume II): Richard Nixon and the War Powers Resolution

Read a PDF of Nixon's veto message in regards to the War Powers Resolution, a limit on the President's authority to commit American troops abroad without Congress' approval. Congress passed the War Powers Resolution over President Nixon's veto.

Extension Activity (Volume I): John Adams

Download PDF copies of the State Responses to the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. Includes, Virginia, Kentucky, New Hampshire and Rhode Island respectively. 

Extension Activity (Volume I): Anti-German Propaganda and Additional trial exhibits in the trial of Emma Goldman

WWI Propaganda Posters (click each image for a larger version)

	- Anti-German Image 1
	- Anti-German Image 2

Additional trial exhibits in the trial of Emma Goldman

Click here to read the New York Times story on Emma Goldman.

	- Emma Goldman
	- A Memo from the Justice Department
	- The Warrant for Emma Goldman
	- Emma Goldman's Statement
	- A Rally for Emma Goldman in 1916
	- A Cartoon for Emma Goldman
	- An Anti-Conscription Article
	- A Picture of a Raid
	- A Cartoon Criticizing Theodore Roosevelt

James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield was the second President to be assassinated. (Lincoln was the first.) He was shot in the back by a former supporter who had been stalking him for weeks,...

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