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In the Great American Documents series, the teacher and graphic-book author Ruth Ashby and the renowned illustrator Ernie Coln tell the story of the United States through the major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays that shaped it.The Great American Documents: Volume 1 introduces as series narrator none other thanUncle Sam, who walks us through twenty essential documents bookended by the Mayflower Compact in 1620 and the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Each document gets a chapter, in which Uncle Sam explains its key passages, its origins, how it came to be written, and its impact. In the chapter "The Maryland Toleration Act," we learn that this document was one of the first blueprints for modern religious tolerance. "Common Sense" depicts the Boston Tea Party and the British response asthe prelude to Paine's stirring pamphlet.



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