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Collision of Capitalism and Democracy, The
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about the contradiction between the growing labor needs of a rapidly expanding capitalistic society and a legal and political system which placed strict limitations on the degree ...
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Naturalization Law of 1790, The
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about the nation's first naturalization law (1790), which stipulated that only "free white persons" could be fully participating citizens.