Major Problems in American History 2e Volume 1: To 1877
ISBN: 9780618678327 | 0618678328
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 10/20/2006
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Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the "Major Problems" series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as the primary anthology for the introductory survey course, covering the subject's entire chronological span. Comprehensive topical coverage includes politics, economics, labor, gender, culture, and social trends.The Second Edition features integrated coverage of women in Volume I, as well as a streamlined chronology in Volume II. Key ped... MORE
| Introduction to Students: How to Read Primary and Secondary Sources | |
| Conquest and Colliding Empires | |
| Documents | |
| Christopher Columbus Recounts His First Encounters with Native People, 1493 | |
| Fray Bernardino de Sahagun Relates an Aztec Chronicler's Account of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs, 1519 | |
| Father Bartolomeacute; de Las Casas Disparages the Treatment of the Indians, 1542 | |
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| Father Paul Le Jeune Reports on His Encounters with the Indians, 1634 | |
| William Wood Describes Indian Responses to the English, 1634 | |
| John Mason Gives a Puritan Account of the Pequot War, 1637 | |
| Essays | |
| The Indians' New World Neal Salisbury | |
| The Indians' Old World | |
| The Southern Colonies in British America | |
| Documents | |
| Richard Frethorne, an Indentured Servant, Laments His Condition in Virginia, 1623 | |
| George Alsop Argues That Servants in Maryland Profit from Life in the Colonies, 1666 | |
| Nathaniel Bacon Recounts the Misdeeds of the Virginia Governor, 1676 | |
| Virginia's Statutes Illustrate the Declining Status of African American Slaves, 1660–1705 | |
| William Byrd Describes His Views Toward Learning and His Slaves, 1709–1710 | |
| Olaudah Equiano, an African, Depicts the Horrors of Enslavement, 1757 | |
| Reverand Charles Woodmason Complains About Life in the Carolina Backcountry, 1768 | |
| Essays | |
| The Anxious World of the Slaveowning Patriarch | |
| The Effects of Paternalism Among Whites and Blacks | |
| Colonial New England and the Middle Colonies in British America | |
| Documents | |
| Governor John Winthrop Provides a Model of Christian Charity, 1630 | |
| Governor William Bradford Mourns a Wickedness That Breaks Forth, 1642 | |
| William Penn Promotes His Colony, 1681 | |
| Massachusetts Officials Describe the Outbreak of Witchcraft in Salem, 1692 | |
| Jonathan Edwards Pictures Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, 1741 | |
| Benjamin Franklin Celebrates a Life of Thrift and Industry (c. 1730–1750), 1793 | |
| Dr. Alexander Hamilton Depicts the Material Acquisitions of Northern Colonists, 1744 | |
| Gottlieb Mittelberger, a German, Portrays the Difficulties of Immigration, 1750 | |
| Mary Jemison Recounts Her Experience of Capture and Becoming Seneca, 1755 | |
| Essays | |
| The Northern Colonies as a Family-Centered Society | |
| The Northern Colonies as an Empire of Goods | |
| The American Revolution | |
| Documents | |
| Congress Condemns the Stamp Act, 1765 | |
| The Town of Boston Denounces the "Boston Massacre," 1770 | |
| Thomas Jefferson Specifies the Rights of British Americans, 1774 | |
| Patrick Henry Warns the British to Maintain American Liberties, 1775 | |
| Thomas Paine Advocates the "Common Sense" of Independence, 1776 | |
| German Americans Support the American Revolution, 1776 | |
| Abigail Adams Asks Her Husband to "Remember the Ladies," 1776 | |
| African Americans Petition for Freedom, 1777 | |
| Mohawk Leader Joseph Brant Commits the Loyalty of His People to Britain, 1776 | |
| Loyalists Plead Their Cause to the King, 1782 | |
| Essays | |
| The American Revolution as a Response to British Corruption | |
| The American Revolution as a Radical Departure | |
| The Making of the Constitution | |
| Documents | |
| Cato, an African American, Pleads for the Abolition of Slavery in Pennsylvania, 1781 | |
| Hector St. John Cregrave;vecoeur Compares the Freedom in the North with Slavery in the South, 1782 | |
| Slaveholders in Virginia Argue Against the Abolition of Slavery, 1784–1785 | |
| Thomas Jefferson Proposes the Protection of Religious Freedom in Virginia, 1786 | |
| The Northwest Ordinance Lays Out the Method for New States Joining the Union, 1787 | |
| General William Shepard and Benjamin Lincoln Regret the Disorder That Characterized Shays's Rebellion, 1787 | |
| The Federalist Papers Illustrate the Advantages of Ratification of the Constitution, 1787–1788 | |
| Richard Henry Lee Opposes the Ratification of the Constitution, 1787 | |
| Patrick Henry Condemns the Centralization of Government if the Constitution Is Ratified, 1788 | |
| George Washington Declares Freedom of Religion for Jewish People, 1790 | |
| Essays | |
| The Pressure of the People on the Framers of the Constitution | |
| The Concern of the Framers to Recruit Citizens to Enter Public Life | |
| Competing Visions of Empire in the Early National Period | |
| Documents | |
| Thomas Jefferson Celebrates the Virtue of the Yeoman Farmer, 1785 | |
| Congress Establishes Its First Policy for Naturalization, 1790 | |
| Alexander Hamilton Envisions a Developed American Economy, 1791 | |
| Thomas Jefferson Berates the Federalists, 1796 | |
| C. William Manning, a Republican, Fears for the Future of the Nation, 1798 | |
| Thomas Jefferson Advances the Power of the States, 1798 | |
| John Marshall Argues for the Primacy of the Federal Government, 1803 | |
| Parson Weems Romanticizes the Life of George Washington, 1808 | |
| Essays | |
| The Fears of the Federalists | |
| The Fears of the Jeffersonian Republicans | |
| Westward Movement, the Market Revolution, and Indian Removal | |
| Documents | |
| Joseph Brant Compares Indian and White Civilizations, 1789 | |
| Iroquois Chief Red Jacket Decries the Day When Whites Arrived, 1805 | |
| William Clark Enters into Diplomacy with Native People, 1806 | |
| Shawnee Chief Tecumseh Recounts the Misdeeds of Whites and Calls for Indian Unity, 1810 | |
| Tenskwatawa (the Shawnee Prophet) Relates His Journey to the World Above, 1810 | |
| Congressman Felix Grundy Advocates War with Britain, 1811 | |
| John Marshall Advances a Broad Construction of the Constitution, 1819 | |
| James Monroe Declares That European Powers May Not Interfere in the Americas, 1823 | |
| John Quincy Adams Urges Internal Improvements, 1825 | |
| The Cherokee Nation Pleads to Remain "on the Land of Our Fathers," 1830 | |
| Essays | |
| Indians Utilizing a Strategy of Armed Resistance Theda Perdue | |
| Indians Utilizing a Strategy of Accommodation | |
| Nationalism, Sectionalism, and Expansionism in the Age of Jackson | |
| Documents | |
| John C. Calhoun Argues for Rights of States, 1828 | |
| Daniel Webster Lays Out His Nationalist Vision, 1830 | |
| Andrew Jackson Condemns the Rights of "Nullification" and Secession, 1832 | |
| Historian George Bancroft Asserts His Faith in the Wisdom of the People, 1835 | |
| Lieutenant-Colonel Joseacute; Enrique de la Pentilde;na Defends Mexico's Actions Against the Texans, 1836 | |
| John L. O'Sullivan, a Democratic Newspaperman, Venerates Democracy and the "Democratic Principle," 1837 | |
| Michel Chevelier, a French Visitor, Marvels at the Pageantry of Politics, 1839 | |
| John L. O'Sullivan Defines "Manifest Destiny," 1845 | |
| Senator Thomas Hart Benton Justifies White Supremacy, 1846 | |
| Senator John Dix Advocates Expansion into Mexico, 1848 | |
| Walter Colton, a Californian, Describes the Excitement of the Gold Rush, 1848 | |
| Essays | |
| Antebellum Politics as Raucous Democracy | |
| Antebellum Politics as Political Manipulation | |
| Reform and the Great Awakening in the Early Nineteenth Century | |
| Documents | |
| Peter Cartwritht, a Methodist Itinerant Preacher, Marvels at the Power of Religious Revivals, 1801 | |
| Frances Trollope, an Englishwoman, Views a Religious Meeting in Indiana, 1829< | |
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