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Revised for the fifth edition ofAmerica's History, this affordable and comprehensive documents collection includes more than 350 primary-source documents 25% new to this edition and follows the organization of the textbook to provide students with a seamless learning experience. The number of visuals has been tripled and numerous sets of documents highlight different prespectives on the same issue. Each document is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by questions for further thought.

PART 1: THE CREATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1450-1775

  Chapter 1. Worlds Collide: Europe, Africa, and America, 1450-1620
    Native American Worlds
       1-1 Indian and Non-Indian Population Charts, 1492-1980
       1-2 Bernal DÃaz del Castillo, Discovery and Conquest of Mexico (1517-1521)
       1-3 Francisco Pareja, Confessario (1613)
       1-4 Pierre de Charlevoix, The Role of Women Huron Society (1721)
    Traditional European Society in 1450, and Europe Encounters Africa and the Americas, 1450-1550
       1-5 Raoul Glaber, An Account of Famine (c. 1040)
       1-6 Gomes Eannes de Azurara, Princy Henry and the Slave Trade (1444)
       1-7 BartolomÃ© de las Casas, Columbus's Landfall (1552)
    The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of England
       1-8 John Hales, Objections against Enclosure (1548)
       1-9 Richard Hakluyt, A Discourse to Promote Colonization (1584)
       1-10 Thomas Harriot, Brief and True Report of the New Found Land (1588)
       1-11 Visual Documents: Native Americans from Roanoke Island (1585, 1590)

  Chapter 2. The Invasion and Settlement of North America, 1550â€“1700
    Imperial Conflicts and Rival Colonial Models
       2-1 BartolomÃ© de las Casas, History of the Indies (1552)
       2-2 John Smith, A True Relation of Virginia (1608)
       2-3 John Smith, Checklist for Virginia-Bound Colonists (1624)
    The Chesapeake Experience
       2-4 Notes on Indentured Servitude in Virginia (1640)
       2-5 Nathaniel Bacon, Manifesto (1676)
    Puritan New England
       2-6 John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charity (1630)
       2-7 Transcript of the Examination of Anne Hutchinson (1637)
       2-8 John Porter Jr. and Puritan Family Law (1646, 1664)
       2-9 The Ordeal of Cotton Mather's Family (1713)
    The Indians' New World
       2-10 John Winthrop, But What Warrant Have We to Take That Land? (1629)
       2-11 Strangers in Their Own Land: The Catawbas Confront the English (1754-1755)

  Chapter 3. The British Empire in America, 1660-1750
    The Politics of Empire, 1660-1713
       3-1 The Navigation Act of 1660
       3-2 Thomas Danforth, The Glorious Revolution in Massachusetts (1689)
    The Imperial Slave Economy
       3-3 Thomas Phillips, A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal (1693-1694)
       3-4 Slavery and Prejudice: An Act for the Better Order and Government of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina (1712)
       3-5 Conflicts between Masters and Slaves: Maryland in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
       3-6 An Early Slave Narrative: Ayubah Suleiman Diallo, or "Job" (1734)
       3-7 The Secret Diary of William Byrd II (1709-1711)
       3-8 Visual Documents: Plantation Life in the Eighteenth Century
    The New Politics of Empire, 1713-1750
       3-9 Governor Alexander Spotswood Tangles with the Virginia Burgesses
       3-10 Stono Rebellion in South Carolina (1739)

  Chapter 4. Growth and Crisis in Colonial Society, 1720-1765
    Freehold Society in New England
       4-1 Nicholas Dudley, A New Hampshire Will (1763)
       4-2 Benjamin Wadsworth, The Obligations of a Wife (1712)
    The Mid-Atlantic: Toward a New Society, 1720-1765
       4-3 Peter Kalm, A Description of Philadelphia (1748)
       4-4 Cadwallader Colden, Class Structure in New York (1765)
       4-5 Job Johnson, Letter from a Scots-Irish Immigrant (1767)
       4-6 Visual Document: An Abolitionist in Pennsylvania in the 1730s
    The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, 1740-1765
       4-7 Benjamin Franklin, On Education during the American Enlightenment (1749)
       4-8 The Reverend James Ireland, An Evangelical Preacher's Trials (1760s)
       4-9 Charles Woodmason, Fighting Revivalism in the Carolina Backcountry (1768)
    The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750-1765
       4-10 Christian Frederick Post, Negotiating Peace with the Ohio Indians (1758)
       4-11 Protests on the Frontier I: The Paxton Riots (1764)
       4-12 Protests on the Frontier II: The North Carolina Regulators (1769)

  Chapter 5. Toward Independence: Years of Decision, 1763-1775
    The Imperial Reform Movement, 1763-1765, and The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765-1766
       5-1 Jared Ingersoll, Report on the Debates in Parliament (1765)
       5-2 Francis Bernard, Stamp Act Riot (1765)
       5-3 New York Merchant Boycott Agreement (1765)
       5-4 Norfolk Sons of Liberty Pronouncement (1766)
       5-5 Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress (1765)
    The Growing Confrontation, 1767-1770
       5-6 John Dickinson, Letter VII from a Farmer (1768)
       5-7 The Boycott Agreement of the Women in Boston (1770)
       5-8 Peter Oliver, Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion (1780s)
       5-9 Captain Thomas Preston, An Account of the Boston Massacre (1770)
    The Road to War, 1771-1775
       5-10 George R. T. Hewes, An Account of the Boston Tea Party of 1773
       5-11 Visual Documents: A British View of Rebellion in Boston (1774)
       5-12 The Edenton, North Carolina, Boycott Agreement (1774)
       5-13 Thomas Jefferson, Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
       5-14 The Continental Congress Creates the Association (1774)

PART TWO: THE NEW REPUBLIC, 1775-1820

  Chapter 6. War and Revolution, 1775-1783
    Toward Independence, 1775-1776
       6-1 Gouverneur Morris, The Poor Reptiles (1774)
       6-2 Lord Dunmore, A Proclamation (1775)
       6-3 Samuel Johnson, On Liberty and Slavery (1775)
       6-4 Thomas Jefferson, Condemning the King on the Issue of Slavery (1776)
    The Trials of War, 1776-1778, and The Path to Victory, 1778-1783
       6-5 Continental Congress to the Iroquois Confederacy (1775)
       6-6 Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, Number I (December 1776)
       6-7 Sarah Osborn, An Account of Life with the Army (1780-1783)
       6-8 Jacob Francis, An African American Recounts His War Service (1775-1777)
       6-9 John Struthers, An Account of War on the Frontier (1777-1782)
       6-10 Civil War in the Southern Backcountry (1781)
       6-11 Visual Documents: British Perceptions of the War for Independence (1776, 1778)
    Republicanism Defined and Challenged
       6-12 Abigail Adams, Boston Women Support Price Control (1777)
       6-13 Philadelphia Militiamen Seek to Protect Their Rights (1779)
       6-14 Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom (1786)
       6-15 Proslavery Petitions in Virginia (1785)

  Chapter 7. The New Political Order, 1776-1800
    Creating Republican Institutions, 1776-1787
       7-1 The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
       7-2 John Heckewelder, Pachgantschihilas Warns about the Long Knives (1781)
       7-3 William Finlay, On Democracy, Banks, and Paper Money (1786)
    The Constitution of 1787
       7-4 Elbridge Gerry, A Warning to the Delegates about Leveling (1787)
       7-5 George Clinton, An Attack on the Proposed Federal Constitution (1787)
       7-6 James Madison, The Federalist, No. 10 (1787)
    The Political Crisis of the 1790s
       7-7 Alexander Hamilton, Report on Public Credit (1790)
       7-8 George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
       7-9 Visual Documents: George Washington and Resisting Tyranny (1799, 1800)
       7-10 The Sedition Act (1798)
       7-11 Thomas Jefferson, The Kentucky Resolutions (1798)
       7-12 Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801)

  Chapter 8. Dynamic Change: Western Settlement and Eastern Capitalism, 1790-1820
    Westward Expansion
       8-1 Henry Knox, Proposed Indian Policy for the New Republic
       8-2 Thomas Jefferson, Message to Congress (January 18, 1803)
       8-3 Jane Stevenson, A Pioneer Woman in Post-Revolutionary Kentucky (1840s)
       8-4 Leonard Covington, The Slaveholders' Frontier: Moving to Mississippi (1808-1809)
    The Republicans' Political Revolution
       8-5 Marbury v. Madison (1803)
       8-6 Congressional Resolution on Western Lands (1800)
       8-7 The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)
       8-8 Visual Documents: Jefferson and the Embargo (1808, 1809)
       8-9 William Henry Harrison, Speech to Tecumseh and the Prophet (1811) and Report to the Secretary of War (1814)
       8-10 Hartford Convention Resolutions, 1814
    The Capitalist Commonwealth
       8-11 Mathew Carey, The Virtues and Drawbacks of Chartered Banks (1816)
       8-12 Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
       8-13 Daniel Webster, Argument for the Plaintiff in Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1818)

  Chapter 9. The Quest for a Republican Society, 1790-1820
    Democratic Republicanism
       9-1 Visual Document: The Plan for the City of Washington (1791)
       9-2 Universal (White) Manhood Suffrage? The New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821
       9-3 Benjamin Rush, The Education of Republican Women (1798)
    Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery, 1780-1820
       9-4 James Madison, Original Intent and Slavery (1819)
       9-5 Daniel Raymond, The Blight of Slavery (1819)
       9-6 Forced Migration to the Cotton South: The Narrative of Charles Ball (1837)
       9-7 Frederick Law Olmsted, Slave Management on a Mississippi Plantation (1852)
       9-8 Nat Turner, Religion in the Quarters (1832)
    Protestant Christianity as a Social Force
       9-9 Reverend George Baxter, Defending the Revival at Cane Ridge, Kentucky (1802)
       9-10 Ezra Stiles Ely, The Duty of Christian Freemen to Elect Christian Rulers (1828)
       9-11 Alexis de Tocqueville, What Makes Religion Powerful in America? (1831)

PART THREE: ECONOMIC REVOLUTION AND SECTIONAL STRIFE, 1820-1877

  Chapter 10. The Economic Revolution, 1820-1860
    The Coming of Industry: Northeastern Manufacturing
       10-1 Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIX (1780)
       10-2 Frances Anne Kemble, The Reality of the Agrarian Vision: The Plight of Female Slaves (1839)
       10-3 A Mill Worker Describes Her Work and Life (1844)
       10-4 Harriet Martineau, Moral of Manufactures (1837)
       10-5 Visual Documents: The "Factory Girls" (1844, 1845)
       10-6 Joseph Whitworth, The American System of Manufactures (1854)
    The Expansion of Markets
       10-7 Jesup W. Scott, Western Railroads (1845)
       10-8 A Satire on Western Boosterism (1845)
    Changes in the Social Structure
       10-9 Alexis de Toqueville, The Rise of an Industrial Aristocracy (1831)
       10-10 Freeman Hunt, Advice for Businessmen (1856)
       10-11 Charles Grandison Finney, A Conversion Experience (1821)

  Chapter 11 . A Democratic Revolution, 1820-1844
    The Rise of Popular Politics, 1820â€“1829
       11-1 James Kent, An Argument against Universal Suffrage (1821)
       11-2 Alexis de Tocqueville, The Tyranny of the Majority (1830s)
       11-3 Henry Clay, Speech on the Tariff (March 30-31, 1824)
    The Jacksonian Presidency, 1829â€“1837
       11-4 Andrew Jackson, Bank Veto Message (1832)
       11-5 Andrew Jackson and Elias Boudinot, On Indian Removal (1829)
       11-6 South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832)
    Class, Culture, and the Second Party System
       11-7 Seth Luther, Address to the Working Men of New England (1832)
       11-8 Acquittal of Cordwainers of Hudson, New York, in People v. Cooper (1836)
       11-9 Visual Document: The Election of 1836
       11-10 Francis P. Blair, Protecting Domestic Industry (1842)
       11-11 John Scholefield, A Whig Discusses How to Appeal to the Workingman (1833)

  Chapter 12. Religion and Reform, 1820-1860
    Individualism and Communalism
       12-1 Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
       12-2 Rebecca Cox Jackson, The Shakers (1850)
       12-3 John Humphrey Noyes, Male Continence (1872)
    Abolitionism
       12-4 William Lloyd Garrison, Commencement of The Liberator (1831)
       12-5 Visual Document: Satirizing Free Blacks (1836)
       12-6 Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)
    The Women's Rights Movement
       12-7 Angelina E. GrimkÃ©, Breaking Out of Women's Separate Sphere (1838)
       12-8 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)

  Chapter 13. The Crisis of the Union, 1844-1860
    Manifest Destiny
       13-1 John L. O'Sullivan, Texas, California, and Manifest Destiny (1845)
       13-2 Thomas Oliver Larkin, The Importance of California (1845)
    War, Expansion, and Slavery, 1846-1850
       13-3 Carlos Maria de Bustamante, The American Invasion of Mexico, 1847
       13-4 Salmon P. Chase, Defining the Constitutional Limits of Slavery (1850)
       13-5 John C. Calhoun, A Discourse on the Constitution (1850)
    The End of the Second Party System, 1850-1858
       13-6 The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
       13-7 The Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act (1855)
       13-8 Opposing Accounts of the Rescue of a Fugitive (1851)
       13-9 Charles Sumner, The Crime against Kansas (1856)
       13-10 The Dred Scott Decision (1857)
    Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858-1860
       13-11 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
       13-12 The Trial of John Brown (1859)
       13-13 The Republican Party Platform of 1860

  Chapter 14. Two Societies at War, 1861-1865
    Secession and Military Stalemate, 1861-1862 and Toward Total War
       14-1 Charles Memminger, South Carolina Secedes from the Union (1860)
       14-2 Constitution of the Confederate States (1861)
       14-3 Mary Boykin Chesnut, The Crisis at Fort Sumter (April 1861)
       14-4 William Howard Russell, A British Reporter Witnesses the First Battle of Bull Run (July 1861)
       14-5 The Work of the United States Sanitary Commission (1864)
    The Turning Point: 1863
       14-6 Slave Runaways in South Carolina (1861)
       14-7 Charlotte Forten, A Northern Black Woman Teaches Contrabands in South Carolina (1862)
       14-8 Abraham Lincoln, The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
       14-9 Visual Documents: Lincoln and Emancipation (1864)
       14-10 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, The New York City Draft Riots (July 1863)
       14-11 Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863)
    The Union Victorious, 1864-1865
       14-12 Confederates Debate Emancipation (1863-1864)
       14-13 Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865)

  Chapter 15. Reconstruction, 1865-1877
    Presidential Reconstruction
       15-1 Andrew Johnson, Plan of Reconstruction (1865)
       15-2 Carl Shurz, Report on Conditions in the South (1865)
       15-3 The Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
       15-4 The Civil Rights Act of 1866
    Radical Reconstruction
       15-5 Thaddeus Stevens, Black Suffrage and Land Redistribution (1867)
       15-6 The Fourteenth Amendment and Woman Suffrage (1873, 1875)
       15-7 Richard H. Cain, An Advocate of Federal Aid for Land Purchase (1868)
       15-8 Statistics on Black Ownership (1870-1910)
    The Undoing of Reconstruction
       15-9 Visual Documents: The Rise and Fall of Northern Support for Reconstruction (1868, 1874)
       15-10 Albion W. Tourgee, A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools (1879)
       15-11 President Grant Refuses to Aid Republicans in Mississippi (1875)
       15-12 The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)

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Documents to Accompany America's History, Volume 1 To 1877

Documents to Accompany America's History, Volume 1 To 1877

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