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Nara: Teaching With Documents: Anti Railroad Propaganda Poster

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From the National Archives and Records Administration site, this lesson, focusing on a poster circulated in Philadelphia in 1839 to discourage the coming of the railroad, relates to the struggle to define the powers of the national and state governments. It can be examined along with Article I, Section 8, on the powers of Congress and Article IV on states' rights.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)